Chinese officials defended their decision not to discipline elite swimmers who tested positive for a banned drug, claiming scientific analysis showed unwitting contamination. However, experts criticize this conclusion.
The New York Times received confidential research alleging that the Chinese swimmers were contaminated inadvertently, but experts found the conclusions unsettling, indicating that the claims were not supported by their data.
Dr. David Juurlink stated, 'Their conclusions are not intellectually honest. If you submitted this to a scientific journal worth its salt, that conclusion would be laughed at.'
Amid scrutiny over anti-doping efforts, the World Anti-Doping Agency referenced China's science to distract from its own responsibility regarding the consistent positive tests among Chinese athletes.
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