With less than 100 days to go before the Paris Olympics, the Australian media slandered the Chinese swimming team in an attempt to disrupt the morale of the military. The Herald Sun sensationalized the revelation that 23 athletes of the Chinese swimming team had been found to have banned drugs ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
"These details have been kept secret for three years, but News Corp. can reveal that 23 members of the Chinese swimming team tested positive for trimetazidine at a training camp held months before the postponed Tokyo Olympics," wrote Julian Linden, a prominent correspondent for the newspaper. ”
Typically, under the sport's strict policy, anyone who fails a drug test is subject to some form of sanction, which states that athletes are responsible for any banned substances found in their bodies, regardless of how they get into their bodies, Mr. Lyndon said. But the Chinese side acquitted all swimmers without imposing any punishment after finding that the positive samples were the result of contamination.
The Australian media has sinister intentions, especially mentioning that Zhang Yufei, the queen of butterflies, performed well at the Tokyo Olympics, giving readers a bad hint. But scribbling without any evidence is legally responsible, so in order to show objectivity, they added: "It's not that Zhang Yufei is one of the 23 athletes." ”
Both the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the World Swimming Association were notified of the adverse test results and investigated the incident files. They all believe that the bad results were caused by pollution, so the 23 Chinese swimmers did not break any rules and should not be punished in any way.
"But not everyone is so sure (there is nothing wrong with the Chinese players). The other two main players – the International Doping Control Agency and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency – have expressed concerns about the manner in which drug tests are reported and have called for further investigations. And Professor Olivier Rabin, WADA Senior Director of Science and Medicine, said their own investigation into the case supported China's ruling that no violations had occurred.
Since it was before the Tokyo Olympics (and it was chasing the wind), the Australian media chose to expose it at this time point, and the intention was obvious, that is, to sabotage the preparation of the Chinese swimming team, and they could not accept the good results of the Chinese team in the Paris Olympics.