Australian breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook lost his world record last year to a Chinese swimmer who tested positive to a banned substance before the Tokyo Olympics.
Olympic gold medallist Zac Stubblety-Cook says he has to trust doping authorities have followed the correct processes after it was revealed 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance before the Tokyo Olympics but were still allowed to compete.
WADA accepted China’s version of events that athletes were inadvertently exposed to the substance in a kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers had stayed and agreed there were only low amounts of the drug.China’s Qin Haiyang after winning a gold medal over Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Cook in the men’s 200m breaststroke final at the 2023 world championships.
Australia’s women’s 4x200m freestyle relay team won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics behind China, who broke the world record.Ariarne Titmus was a member of Australia’s women’s 4x200m freestyle team in Tokyo that won a bronze medal behind China, who finished first in a world record time.
In a second statement Tygart added: “When you blow away their rhetoric, the facts remain as have been reported: WADA failed to provisionally suspend the athletes, disqualify results, and publicly disclose the positives. These are egregious failures, even if you buy their story that this was contamination and a potent drug ‘magically appeared’ in a kitchen and led to 23 positive tests of elite Chinese swimmers.
“The truth of this matter is that according to all available scientific evidence and intelligence, thoroughly gathered, assessed and tested by leading anti-doping experts, WADA had no basis to challenge the explanation of environmental contamination.
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