China likely to be stripped of Olympic gold medal. “New swimming world record due to doping”

China likely to be stripped of Olympic gold medal. “New swimming world record due to doping”

They were also allowed to participate in the women's 800m relay world record
positive test at the Tokyo Olympics... “The United States will inherit gold”

Following the revelation of match-fixing in the Chinese marathon competition, there were reports that Chinese swimmers participating in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in Japan participated in the competition despite testing positive for doping.

According to a report in the New York Times on the 21st, 23 Chinese female swimmers tested positive for banned substances in a doping test seven months before the opening of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, but participated normally in the Olympics. China considered the athletes' doping charges to be no problem and decided to send them to the Olympics, and the World Anti-Doping Agency ( WADA ) accepted this decision. The New York Times reported that the World Anti-Doping Agency allowed Chinese athletes to participate in the Olympics despite opposition from internal and external experts, saying, “There is insufficient evidence to suggest that the athletes violated doping rules.”

The banned substance for which athletes tested positive is trimetazidine, which also became a problem for Chinese swimmer Sun Yang. Trimetazidine is used as a treatment for angina pectoris because it has the effect of facilitating oxygen supply to the body. At that time, China won the women's 800m relay final with Yang Junxuan, Tang Wuhan, Zhang Yufei, and Li Bingje competing in the relay, setting a new world record of 7 minutes 40.33 seconds. The United States took second and third place with a time of 7 minutes 40.73 seconds, and Australia took second and third place with a time of 7 minutes 41.29 seconds.

As the doping issue emerges, the gold medal of the Chinese women's 800m relay athletes, who won the 2021 Olympics by setting a new world record, is expected to be stripped. Swimswam, an American swimming media outlet, reported the previous day, “American swimmers who participated in the women’s 800m relay at the Tokyo Olympics were stripped of their gold medals by the United States Anti-Doping Agency ( USADA ), saying, ‘China violated the relay athlete’s doping regulations. “We were informed that the United States would inherit the gold medal,” the report said.

Meanwhile, suspicions of match-fixing at the Beijing Half Marathon in China, which sparked controversy after a video of a foreign runner intentionally slowing down, were released, were confirmed to be true. On the 19th, the Beijing Half Marathon organizing committee announced that three foreign athletes who slowed down before the finish line participated as 'pacemakers' to improve the Chinese athlete's record. The organizing committee said, “Of the four foreign athletes who participated as pacemakers, one gave up the race midway, but three others ran ahead of the Chinese athlete and intentionally slowed down with the last 2km left,” adding, “As a result, China’s Heoje finished 1 hour 3. “I took first place with a time of 44 seconds.”

The organizing committee decided to cancel the records of a total of four people, including the winner, Heo Je, and the three African athletes who followed in, and withdraw their medals and prize money. The China Athletics Association plans to strengthen the supervision, management, guidance, and service of marathon events and regulate competition in the commercialization of marathons.