'It's hard going into Paris knowing that we're going to be racing some of these athletes,' says Olympic champion Katie Ledecky as she speaks about the Chinese swimmers who avoided sanctions after testing positive for a banned substance
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Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky has said her faith in the anti-doping system ahead of the Paris Games is at an all-time low amid the widely-criticized handling of failed drug tests in Chinese swimming. “It’s hard going into Paris knowing that we’re going to be racing some of these athletes,” said Ledecky. “And I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low.”
A report determined all the swimmers who tested positive were staying at the same hotel where traces of a banned heart medication called trimetazidine were discovered in the kitchen.launch an independent reviewWADA vigorously defended its initial handling of the case and said it had no evidence to question China’s finding that the swimmers were inadvertently contaminated by TMZ.
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