Katie Ledecky hopes for ‘clean’ swimmers at Olympics after Chinese doping row
by Tom Lutz from US news | The Guardian on (#6PF2G)
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Katie Ledecky referenced allegations around Chinese doping in her opening press conference at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, saying she hopes to face clean" athletes in the coming weeks.
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned drug trimetazidine months before the last Olympics, in Tokyo, but were still allowed to compete after the World Anti-Doping Agency accepted an explanation from Chinese authorities that the athletes had stayed at a hotel with a contaminated kitchen.
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