WADA Clears Itself in Chinese Doping Case, but Report Raises New Questions

Chinese swimmers won three golds at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and are favored to win more at the Paris Games next month.The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday cleared itself of wrongdoing over its decision not to discipline elite Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned drug in the lead-up to the previous Summer Olympics, even as new details emerged that raised questions about how it had handled the decision.

A special prosecutor appointed by the antidoping agency, known as WADA, to review its decision said he had found that the agency made an “indisputably reasonable” decision not to impose penalties on the swimmers, and concluded that the agency had not shown preferential…