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World Aquatics has formed a five-member anti-doping audit assessment committee following revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers were allowed to partake in the Tokyo Games despite testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) stated it could not refute the claim from the China Anti-Doping Agency (Chinada) that the swimmers had unintentionally consumed the heart medication trimetazidine (TMZ).
According to BBC, in a letter sent to member federations, world swimming’s governing body said, “the goal is to enhance our understanding of the anti-doping review and decision-making process within our federation as it concerned this particular case and take away any learnings from this experience to make World Aquatics more equipped for the future.”
“Your confidence, and the confidence of all athletes in our system is vital to our future together.”
The report stated that Miguel Cardenal, Ken Lalo, Annabelle Williams, Florent Manaudou and Fernando Possenti have been appointed to the committee.
The review and the resulting report are anticipated to be finalized by next month.
Following public outage over the scandal, WADA introduced an independent review of its response to the case. Swiss public prosecutor Eric Cottier is expected to release the results of the investigation within the next two months.
WADA President Witold Banka said in a statement released last month that “WADA’s integrity and reputation is under attack. In the past few days, WADA had been unfairly accused of serious bias in favor of China by not appealing the CHINADA case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.”
“We continue to reject the false accusations and we are pleased to be able to put these questions into the hands of an experienced, respected and independent prosecutor.”
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