Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi was a no-show for the 50m freestyle heats at the Rio Olympics Friday, a day after it emerged she had failed a drugs test.
Advertisement
With all doping cases at the Olympics being handled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the 18-year-old has opted against asking for a provisional suspension and has requested for her B sample to be tested.
Golf started its return performance at the Rio Games on Thursday.
It was reported that a total of five Chinese swimmers tested positive, with two coming in October and three at the turn of the year.
“If the assertion is true, the CSA will earnestly implement anti-doping regulations and safeguard legal interests according to law”, Xinhua cited an unnamed CSA official as saying in a statement.
Polish weightlifter Tomasz Zielinski, a European champion, was sent home by the team earlier this week after failing a test for the steroid nandrolone and he is now officially ineligible to compete.
Australia changed its rules of engagement with foreigners as a result of Sun’s case: no swimmer who ever tested positive may train at a funded centre in the country and all who do visit to train must agree to submit to national anti-doping agency testing on demand at their own cost.
An order to get out of the Rio athletes village was also ordered against Bulgarian steeplechase runner Danekova, 33, who tested positive for EPO blood doping. “As a outcome, the athlete is provisionally suspended from competing at the Olympic Games”.
“I am not guilty, I have done nothing wrong. We found out that my fourth test was positive”, Danekova told Bulgarian television.
“[Results] of the three of the samples were negative – it’s an incredibly big shock”.
She claims that a contaminated food supplement is the “only logical explanation”.
Advertisement
Once the International Olympic Committee decides there is a case to answer, the Court of Arbitration of Sport takes over to determine whether an adverse finding translates into an anti-doping violation or not.
