BEIJING (AP) — The China Anti-Doping Agency says there have been six recent positive drugs tests by Chinese swimmers but denies claims in a British newspaper of a cover-up.
The Times said in Thursday’s editions that it had been approached by whistleblowers in Chinese swimming who claimed that five positive tests had been kept secret.
Zhao Jian, deputy director of the Chinese agency known as CHINADA, said it had recorded three positive tests, all for clenbuterol, in late August and early September. The swimming federation will soon issue punishments in those cases and the results will be made known.