The thing about a cover-up is that there’s nothing to see. It’s the smell that gives it away.
but were not even provisionally suspended. There might be good cause for the World Anti-Doping Agency to have accepted China’s explanation about accidental mass contamination and negligible readings.But that was early in 2021. Three years have elapsed without a word either from Chinese authorities or WADA, and the episode is only in the public domain now because of the painstaking work of investigative journalists atWADA is not obliged to make public all that comes across its desk.
That’s credible as far as it goes. But it doesn’t explain why the drug – devised as a medication for heart disease – was present at all in the training camp. And it doesn’t explain why details of this course of events, if so innocent, were buried away in archives unlikely to come again before human eyes, until they did.Then there’s the role of WADA, the international body.
Jack was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to return to swimming two years later, but too late to make that year’s Tokyo Olympics. The 23 Chinese swimmers competed in Tokyo, and three won gold.We’ve heard a lot in this country recently about the burden of proof. In defending its actions, WADA said it had no “scientific evidence and intelligence” to challenge China’s conclusions and was “not in a position to disprove the possibility that contamination was the source of TMZ”.
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