BEIJING: China will send 11 swimmers implicated in a doping scandal to next month's Paris Olympics, after the country named its squad for the Games. Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the heart dr
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the heart drug trimetazidine - which can enhance performance - ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Games, it emerged in April.
China named its swimming squad for Paris on Tuesday . Among them were 11 of the 23 who tested positive for the banned TMZ and were named in news reports in April. The head of the US national anti-doping agency Travis Tygart has called the situation a"potential cover-up", an allegation WADA and China have denied.
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