The US government is delaying its annual payment to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) due to the case of doping controls on Chinese swimmers, reports the New York Times.
President Joe Biden’s administration is delaying WADA’s annual payment to force the agency to make changes to its work and become “more transparent and accountable,” the source said. Additionally, Rahul Gupta’s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is pushing to limit WADA’s ability to use U.S. taxpayer dollars to sue U.S. agencies, as happened in the case of WADA’s defamation suit against USADA. Therefore, if last year the United States made a payment in the amount of $3.6 million, this year Gupta will not agree to send funds to WADA.
Both parties hope that this issue can be resolved on December 5 at the WADA Founding Council, which will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In April, it became known that trimetazidine had been detected in doping tests carried out on 23 Chinese athletes before the Tokyo Olympics. The Chinese Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) conducted its own investigation, following which it announced that the substance had entered the swimmers’ bodies unintentionally and in small quantities. WADA could not refute the Chinese version and did not punish the athletes. On September 12, WADA published the full report of independent prosecutor Eric Cottier, who described the international agency’s work in the case as professional. USADA criticized WADA’s position on this issue; in response, the international agency filed a lawsuit against the American organization.
New York Times
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