BREAKING: A top Biden admin official is now calling for an independent investigation into how WADA and Chinese handled positive tests for 23 elite swimmers in the lead up to '21 Olympics, where they went on to win golds and set records. w/tariq panja
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WADA is currently holding a conference/zoom call in which its top officials are on camera laying out their rationale for going along with China's decision to clear the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive.

Just gave a guy a lifetime ban.

Here's a short -- and hopefully digestible way -- to understand the emerging Chinese-WADA doping scandal in Olympic swimming.

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Nearly Half of China’s Swimming Team Tested Positive for a Banned Drug Before Being Secretly Cleared to Win Gold at The Tokyo Olympics 💉 🏊‍♀️ 🥇

In-depth investigation with ⁦Michael S. Schmidt⁩ into how China was allowed to explain away positives nytimes.com/2024/04/20/wor…

BREAKING and EXCLUSIVE: The tale of how China's top swimmers tested positive before '21 Olympics, China cleared them of doping, blaming a kitchen with contaminated spices ... AND THEN the World Anti-Doping Agency went along with it all. w/tariq panja nytimes.com/2024/04/20/wor…
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We went back to understand how over the past three weeks baseball's most recognizable player went from being perceived as the game's next Pete Rose back to his place as the modern day Babe Ruth.

w/the great Tim Arango

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Ippei Mizuhara’s lawyer Michael G. Freedman put out a statement tonight saying his client is trying to reach a deal with the government so he can take responsibility and that he apologies to Ohtani.

“Technically I did steal from him,” Mizuhara said in a message he sent last month that the feds obtained and used in court documents filed against him today. “it’s all over for me.”

w/Tim Arango

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