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‘Not for one minute’: Australian coach Denis Cotterell rejects doping claims amid China swimming scandal An Australian coach who works with the Chinese Swimming Association has rejected claims of systemic state-run doping, saying it is “so far from anything I have seen”.by revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for prescription heart drug trimetazidine — which can enhance performance — ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Denis Cotterell, who steered Australian Grant Hackett to multiple Olympic gold medals and also coached drug-tainted Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, told“Am I confident that it’s not dastardly? Not for one minute . I wouldn’t be here ,” Cotterell told the newspaper by phone from the pool deck of the Chinese Olympics trials in Shenzhen, in comments published Monday.
However, the United States Anti-Doping Agency called news of the failed tests “crushing” and blasted WADA’s lack of action as “a devastating stab in the back of clean athletes”. “The fact we are sitting here — what, three years later — and it’s only coming out now through the wrong channels, not through official channels, just makes me feel very unsettled.” The failed tests were first reported by The New York Times and German broadcaster ARD on Saturday, citing a review of confidential documents and emails.Source: Getty Images
Chinese swimming has a chequered doping history. Seven Chinese swimmers tested positive for steroids at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima.
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