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Hooda thunk.. Doping at the dope festival Doping row erupts at Paris 2024 as Wada threaten US and athletes plan Chinese protests World Anti-Doping Agency has said it was ‘speechless’ over claims it has been a lapdog to the International Olympic Committee doping storm over the Olympics in Paris intensified on the eve of the opening ceremony as leading swimmers condemned the “failed” China anti-doping investigation. Caeleb Dressel, the seven-time Olympic gold medallist, bluntly replied “no, not really” when asked whether he had confidence in the case involving 23 athletes. Australia’s Olympic 200 metres breaststroke champion Zac Stubblety-Cook also indicated he may carry out a podium protest against the Chinese. The system, he said, “ultimately feels like it’s failed”. Telegraph Sport had reported after the scandal erupted in April how medal hopefuls were considering protests in Paris but anger has only intensified in recent days. A war between the global anti-doping body and the United States equivalent had already reached boiling point on Thursday before the swimmers spoke out. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has said it was “speechless” over claims it has been a lapdog to the International Olympic Committee, which threatened to pull the plug on the US hosting future Games unless the FBI ends investigations into China cover-up claims. Wada faced ferocious questions at a press conference in Paris, prompting the body to recognise it could not promise Paris would be “the cleanest games ever.” Witold Bańka, the Wada president, said: “It’s not our role to do it” and added later: “It’s obvious that you will never eliminate doping from the sporting landscape.” Dressel, meanwhile, is competing in his third Games, but it is the first one since a doping scandal emerged involving the Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart drug, TMZ, in 2021. “I don’t think they have given us enough evidence to support how this case was handled,” he said of the scandal which first came to light thanks to the New York Times and German TV station ARD-1. Edited on 25/07/2024 at 20:37:19.

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