Ongoing Issues with Doping-Other than Figure Skating

[sk9tingfan]

Russia has been stripped of a 2012 gold medal in race walking. Originally it had won eight medals in the track and field realm. It is now down to two. If sports governing bodies are investigating/working on these issue for a decade, it's not clear, how many more medals may be stripped.

Russia originally won eight track and field gold medals at 2012 Olympics. Now it's two.

Race walker Yelena Lashmanova is set to be stripped of 2012 Olympic and 2013 World titles due to doping, the latest sanction or a Russian.

olympics.nbcsports.com

 

[Sylvia]

April 19, 2024:

US Swimmers Have Been Notified That China's Olympic Gold Medal 800 Free Relay Has Been DQ'ed

The American 800 free relay that won silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been notified that they will receive gold medals after China was retroactively DQ'ed.

swimswam.com

American swimmers have been notified that the Chinese women’s 800 free relay from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to a doping violation by a member of the relay.

That means the Chinese will be stripped of their gold medals and World Record swim of 7:40.33. While athletes were not told who tested positive, the members of the relay were Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, and Li Bingjie in finals and Dong Jie and Zhang Yifan in prelims.

The United States relay finished 2nd in 7:40.73, which was also faster than Australia’s World Record of 7:41.50 going into that meet. Australia has since lowered the World Record to 7:37.50, but the American finals quartet should, in theory, be credited with a World Record retroactively.

That finals relay was Allison Schmitt, Paige Madden, Katie McLaughlin, and Katie Ledecky. Also swimming legs in the heats were Bella Sims and Brooke Forde.

 

[skatingguy]

April 19, 2024:

US Swimmers Have Been Notified That China's Olympic Gold Medal 800 Free Relay Has Been DQ'ed

The American 800 free relay that won silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been notified that they will receive gold medals after China was retroactively DQ'ed.

swimswam.com

American swimmers have been notified that the Chinese women’s 800 free relay from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to a doping violation by a member of the relay.

That means the Chinese will be stripped of their gold medals and World Record swim of 7:40.33. While athletes were not told who tested positive, the members of the relay were Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, and Li Bingjie in finals and Dong Jie and Zhang Yifan in prelims.

The United States relay finished 2nd in 7:40.73, which was also faster than Australia’s World Record of 7:41.50 going into that meet. Australia has since lowered the World Record to 7:37.50, but the American finals quartet should, in theory, be credited with a World Record retroactively.

That finals relay was Allison Schmitt, Paige Madden, Katie McLaughlin, and Katie Ledecky. Also swimming legs in the heats were Bella Sims and Brooke Forde.

That will bump Australia to silver, and Canada to Bronze. So Summer McIntosh is an Olympic medalist at 14 after all, and Penny Oleksiak's Canadian record is now 8 medals.

 

[MacMadame]

This is what the ISU should have done with the Team Event in '22.

 

[On My Own]

April 19, 2024:

US Swimmers Have Been Notified That China's Olympic Gold Medal 800 Free Relay Has Been DQ'ed

The American 800 free relay that won silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been notified that they will receive gold medals after China was retroactively DQ'ed.

swimswam.com

American swimmers have been notified that the Chinese women’s 800 free relay from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to a doping violation by a member of the relay.

That means the Chinese will be stripped of their gold medals and World Record swim of 7:40.33. While athletes were not told who tested positive, the members of the relay were Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, and Li Bingjie in finals and Dong Jie and Zhang Yifan in prelims.

The United States relay finished 2nd in 7:40.73, which was also faster than Australia’s World Record of 7:41.50 going into that meet. Australia has since lowered the World Record to 7:37.50, but the American finals quartet should, in theory, be credited with a World Record retroactively.

That finals relay was Allison Schmitt, Paige Madden, Katie McLaughlin, and Katie Ledecky. Also swimming legs in the heats were Bella Sims and Brooke Forde.

Why did they not say who had the violation and what the violation was?

 

[honey]

So, they were taking the same drug Valieva had the positive test for at the end of 2021. And WADA accepted that 23 of them took it inadvertently? Am I reading this right?

https://x.com/devin_heroux/status/1781649851844788458?s=46&t=8Xvbdp66KnY7Eq2TqnBQHw

ETA: Lengthy NYT article here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

[skatingguy]

So, they were taking the same drug Valieva had the positive test for at the end of 2021. And WADA accepted that 23 of them took it inadvertently? Am I reading this right?

https://x.com/devin_heroux/status/1781649851844788458?s=46&t=8Xvbdp66KnY7Eq2TqnBQHw

ETA: Lengthy NYT article here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

From the information presented it sounds like these positive tests occurred during testing by Chinese Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA), and CHINADA accepted them as inadvertent contamination. The information was then reported to WADA, and WADA was unable to prove that contamination wasn't possible so they had no basis to appeal the CHINADA decision.

I would certainly understand why people would be suspicious of China in these circumstances. They have a history of doping in swimming - they hired the East German swimming coaches after German reunification - and have had a number of swimmers appear, set records, and then disappear from the international scene in the past. Sun Yang, World & Olympic Champion, missed the 2021 Olympics due to a doping ban, and the CHINADA was not very forth coming about his previous suspension.

That being said, contamination of food & health supplements in China is relatively common because their manufacturing processes are not up to the standards that we would expect in other parts of the world. Their training is centralized so athletes in the same sport would be taking the same supplements that would be purchased at the same time, and come from the same batch, and we also know that Chinese athletes take many different supplements.

 

[Sylvia]

ETA - I've moved my original post to a newly created thread:

Trimetazidine in Chinese swimming "mass-contamination event" and WADA's role in an alleged cover-up

Creating a new thread after this gifted NYT link was shared with me: Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for a Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold (April 20, 2024) Nick Butler posted this 6 hours ago: “New information added to this thread [linked below] about positive cases involving Chinese...

www.fsuniverse.net

 

[On My Own]

Nick Butler posted this 6 hours ago: “New information added to this thread [linked below] about positive cases involving Chinese swimmers.
A full ARD documentary will be broadcast over the weekend, made together with great colleagues @hajoseppelt @JMebus and Lea Loeffler” - lengthy Twitter/X thread here: https://x.com/nickjmbutler/status/1781551220823380204

Good questions.