“No the truth isn’t”this is how strong the American swimmer is Caeleb Dressel When asked if he thought he would compete equal conditions at the Paris Olympic Games after the way in which the sports authorities handled the doping case in which about twenty chinese swimmers.
“I don’t think they gave us enough evidence to support them in how they handled the case.”said Dressel, winner of seven Olympic gold medals, in a press conference held this Thursday in the French capital.
An angry affiliation displayed the day before on the same stage by another of the great stars of American swimming, Katie Ledeckywhich assured him hope “everyone competes fairly” in the Olympic event that starts this Saturday at the La Défense Arena pool.
Competition in which eleven of the twenty-three Chinese swimmers who tested positive in early 2021 for trimetazidine, a heart drug that can improve performance, will participate.
A fact that did not prevent thirteen of them, including butterfly player Yufei Zhang and style specialist Shun Wang, who will climb to the top of the podium, from participating seven months later in the Tokyo Olympic Games, after the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency not to punish them.
A decision adopted by WADA after accepting as valid the arguments given by the Chinese anti-doping authorities linking the positive result to food contamination.
Explanations that do not convince most swimmers, as clarified by the American Caeleb Dressel, who did not hesitate to show his discomfort in front of the top leaders of World Aquatics.
“This organization works tirelessly every day and puts its heart into everything it does“So when you hear someone like Caeleb say that, it’s obviously not what you want to hear from any athlete,” said World Aquatics CEO Brent Nowicki.
In this sense, the executive of the International Federation, which on Thursday published a report in which it ensured that the aquatic athletes who will compete in Paris were subjected to more anti-doping controls than before in history, which recognized that it should they work to recover. the confidence of swimmers.
“We have to hope, regain their trust – in reference to Dressel – and all athletes who share the same opinion and we will do it every day,” concluded Nowicki.
Source: La Verdad
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