Paris 2024. The Olympics topic

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Alcaraz -Nadal will need a match or two to get synched ...they were not all that impressive in the first set .of course their opponents were pretty good.

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Antidoping Agency Acknowledges Concern Over Use of Tainted Food as Excuse
After a spate of positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency is investigating why China and other countries are citing contaminated food as an explanation.

The global antidoping regulator disclosed on Tuesday that it is investigating why athletes in China and other countries who are testing positive for banned drugs are escaping discipline through claims that they have unwittingly ingested the performance-enhancing substances through food.

The statement from the World Anti-Doping Agency came after The New York Times reported earlier on Tuesday on a previously undisclosed case in which two elite Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a powerful steroid in 2022 were cleared late last year after their country’s antidoping authority blamed contaminated hamburgers.

It was the third incident in recent years in which China blamed food contamination for positive tests among members of its national swimming team.

In its statement on Tuesday, the World Anti-Doping Agency, known as WADA, revealed that at the same time it was looking into how the two swimmers had tested positive, it was also examining the previously undisclosed cases of two other Chinese athletes in different sports — shooting and BMX bike riding — who tested positive in early 2023 for trace amounts of the same banned drug, metandienone.

“There have been many cases of positive tests that were eventually closed without sanction as no-fault violations, sometimes with unusual methods of contamination,” the statement said.

WADA said the problem extended beyond China to countries including the United States, where, it said, there have been several cases in recent months involving “highly intricate contamination scenarios” that were accepted as legitimate reason not to punish athletes. It did not provide any details.

The controversy around China has led to scrutiny over the entire global antidoping system, and in particular how much faith is placed in national bodies to police their own athletes.

Just before the Olympics, questions were raised over how British officials were able to clear Jade Jones, a double Olympic taekwondo champion, to try to secure a third title in Paris after she refused to provide a doping sample to drug testers. Such a refusal would typically result in a ban. She was cleared because of “exceptional circumstances” that have never been fully revealed.

“We are clean,” said Yang Junxuan, one of three swimmers who The Times reported also tested positive for a different banned substance several years earlier. “The results we are having now are the results of our scientific method of training.”

Mmmhmm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/us/p ... china.html

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Errani's mom has gone global and is also now using beef from South America?

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Katie Ledecky is good at 1.500 metres freestyle. Like, too good, almost. The rest of the field looked happy to battle for silver and bronze because they knew they didn't stand a chance to win gold. Well done Katie!

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