Several Chinese swimmers embroiled in doping scandal selected for Paris Olympics: report

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As the 2024 Paris Olympics nears, countries from across the world have begun announcing their final rosters across a variety of sports.

The Chinese Swimming Association released its roster on Tuesday. But the roster raised some eyebrows as 11 of the 31 swimmers named were already under fire after testing positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine in 2021, NBC reported. 

However, the World-Anti Doping (WADA) ultimately cleared the athletes for competition at the Tokyo Olympics. 

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A view of the Olympic rings in Paris  (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

WADA said the swimmers' positive tests were at least partially due to inadvertently being exposed to the substance through contamination." The Chinese Doping Agency initially made a similar argument to which WADA said it was "not in a position to disprove."  

However, the decision did spark some backlash, with United States Anti-Doping Agency officials suggesting that WADA was possibly involved in an alleged cover-up scheme.

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WADA denied those assertions, describing the idea as "completely false and defamatory."

"(WADA) is astonished by the outrageous, completely false and defamatory remarks made by the CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, who has made very serious accusations against WADA in connection with the case of 23 swimmers from China," WADA said in a news release in April.

Tygart told BBC Sport