Katie Ledecky speaks out on China swimming doping scandal, hopes for 'clean' Olympics

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Twenty-three Chinese swimmers were given the OK to compete in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 despite testing positive for trimetazidine, a banned substance used as a heart medication.

However, the World Anti-Doping Agency said the swimmers' tests had come up positive due to "inadvertently being exposed to the substance through contamination," a claim initially brought by the Chinese Doping Agency.

With the Paris Games' opening ceremony later this week, it's the first Olympics since the scandal, and decorated United States swimmer Katie Ledecky is skeptical.

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Katie Ledecky of the United States after winning the women's 800-meter freestyle final at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium June 22, 2024, in Indianapolis. (Al Bello/Getty Images)

"I hope everyone here is going to be competing clean this week. But what really matters also is, were they training clean?" Ledecky said Wednesday. "Hopefully, that's been the case. Hopefully, there's been even testing around the world."

There is an ongoing U.S. investigation of the suspected doping by the Chinese swimmers, drawing the ire of the International Olympic Committee. While awarding the 2034 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City Wednesday, the IOC pushed Utah officials to do what they can to stop the FBI probe.

"I think everyone's heard what the athletes think. They want transparency. They want further answers to the questions that still remain. At this point, we're here to race. We're going to race whoever's in the lanes next to us. We're not the ones paid to do the testing, so we hope that the people that are follow