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House Energy and Commerce holds a hearing on anti-doping measures for the Olympics, with gold medalists Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt and the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Travis Tygart.
One month before the Summer Games in Paris, Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt will appear before a House committee Tuesday night to discuss alleged problems with the global anti-doping system and ways to make competition fairer.
The hearing, hosted by a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee and titled “Examining Anti-Doping Measures in Advance of the 2024 Olympics,” comes amid an outcry in the swimming community over a New York Times report that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned heart medication months before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
The athletes were cleared to compete after Chinese officials concluded the positive tests were the result of contamination, and the world’s top anti-doping regulator chose not to intervene. Several who tested positive won medals in Tokyo, and some of those swimmers are expected to compete in Paris.
“Olympic athletes dedicate years of their lives to perfect their craft in order to represent the United States on the world stage. They - as well as athletes from every other country - deserve to compete on a level playing field that’s free of banned performance enhancing drugs,” Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., chair of the committee's Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, said in a joint statement.
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29 сен 2024
