The Doping Crisis Set to Test the Paris Olympics


世界反兴奋剂机构因对23名中国游泳运动员药检不合格事件的处置方法而面临信誉危机。


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2021年东京奥运会举行前，有23名中国游泳运动员的违禁药物检测呈阳性，这一事件的曝出引起了轩然大波，也暴露出全球反兴奋剂举措的深层缺陷，而这些问题将直接影响到今年夏天的巴黎奥运会。 6park.com
An uproar over revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics is exposing deep fault lines in global anti-doping measures that will run directly into this summer’s Paris Games.  6park.com
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在2021年初的中国全国性比赛中，这些游泳运动员被检测出心脏药物曲美他嗪结果呈阳性，但在中国官员私下为他们洗清嫌疑，并且世界反兴奋剂机构(World Anti-Doping Agency, 简称WADA)认为不具备推翻中国反兴奋剂中心(Chinada)所给出解释的条件后，这些运动员获准继续参加比赛。 6park.com
The swimmers tested positive for the heart drug trimetazidine at the Chinese national championships in early 2021, but were allowed to continue competing after Chinese officials privately cleared them and the World Anti-Doping Agency concluded it wasn’t in position to disprove the explanation provided by China’s anti-doping authority, Chinada.  6park.com
   
中国反兴奋剂中心称，留宿同一家酒店期间，这些游泳运动员摄入了受污染食物，在不知情的情况下摄入了少量该物质。WADA官员称，这一解释与这些游泳运动员的检测结果一致，也与中国反兴奋剂机构关于在酒店厨房发现了曲美他嗪痕迹的说法一致。 6park.com
Chinada said that the swimmers all inadvertently ingested small amounts of the substance by eating tainted food while staying at the same hotel. WADA officials say that theory is consistent with the swimmers’ test results, and the account of Chinese authorities that they found evidence of trimetazidine in their hotel kitchen.  6park.com
   
但WADA官员也承认，对于一种处方药如何进入备餐区，他们还没有得到具体解释。WADA还表示，由于疫情封控，他们当时无法前往中国进行实地调查。 6park.com
But WADA officials also acknowledge that they have heard no concrete explanation for how a prescription drug found its way into a food preparation area. They couldn’t conduct their own inquiries on the ground in China because of Covid lockdowns, the agency added.  6park.com
   
这一事件目前给这家负责巴黎奥运会反兴奋剂使用的机构带来了信誉危机，而眼下奥运会仍未摆脱俄罗斯兴奋剂事件的影响。在俄罗斯因入侵乌克兰被禁止参加奥运会，以及几年来被疫情和威权主义东道主困扰之后奥运会回归正轨的背景下，全球体育界原本期待着一个更加光明的奥运时代。现在，巴黎奥运会面临着反兴奋剂机构是否对中国手下留情的质疑，而WADA也同时陷入了与美国、中国和俄罗斯的紧张关系之中。 6park.com
The conflict now creates a crisis of credibility for the body responsible for keeping the Paris Games clean, at a time when the legacy of Russian doping still hangs over the Olympics. Global sports had been looking forward to a brighter era of Games, with a ban on Russian participation over the invasion of Ukraine and a reset after years dominated by the pandemic and the Games’ authoritarian hosts. Now, Paris faces questions over whether anti-doping authorities are soft on China, and WADA is entangled in tension with the U.S., China and Russia all at the same time.  6park.com
   
美国奥委会(U.S. Olympic)首席执行官Sarah Hirshland周一表示：“最近的兴奋剂指控给即将开始的奥运会和残奥会周期带来了不确定性。” 6park.com
“The recent allegations of doping cast a shadow of uncertainty as we head into the Olympic and Paralympic cycle,” U.S. Olympic chief executive Sarah Hirshland said Monday.  6park.com
   
根据《纽约时报》(The New York Times)的一篇报道和德国广播公司ARD关于这些阳性检测结果详情的纪录片，上述23名检测结果呈阳性的运动员占参加东京奥运会的中国游泳队队员数量的约一半，并赢得了中国游泳队所获六枚奖牌中的五枚，其中包括全部的三枚金牌。这些阳性检测结果之前未对外公布。 6park.com
The 23 athletes who tested positive made up about half of China’s swim team in Tokyo, and accounted for five of the six medals it won—including all three golds, according to a report in the New York Times and a documentary by the German broadcaster ARD that detailed the cases, which had not previously been publicly disclosed.  6park.com
    
WADA对这些阳性结果的处理引发了美国反兴奋剂机构(U.S. Anti-Doping Agency)的不满。美国反兴奋剂机构首席执行官Travis Tygart说，中国反兴奋剂中心和WADA“掩盖了这些阳性结果，未能公平、公正地遵守适用于世界上其他所有人的全球规则”。Tygart补充说，这些运动员没有通过药检，本应被暂时禁赛。 6park.com
WADA’s handling of the positives sparked outrage from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Usada chief executive Travis Tygart said Chinada and WADA “swept these positives under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” Tygart added that the athletes should have been provisionally suspended after their failed tests.    6park.com
   
WADA称Tygart的言论“完全是虚假和诽谤”。周一，在WADA举行的长达95分钟的新闻发布会上，法律总顾问罗斯·温泽尔(Ross Wenzel)表示，有关掩盖事实真相的说法“完全背离了事实”。温泽尔坚称，WADA的行为是恰当的，并表示该机构也在考虑对泄露机密信息的行为采取行动。 6park.com
WADA has called Tygart’s statements “completely false and defamatory.” On Monday, in a 95-minute press conference by WADA, general counsel Ross Wenzel said that suggestions of a coverup “couldn’t be further from the truth.” Wenzel maintained that WADA acted appropriately and said the agency was also considering action over leaks of confidential information.  6park.com
   
中国政府称这些报道是“虚假信息、不实的报道”。在周一的新闻发布会上，中国外交部发言人汪文斌还说，“涉及的中国游泳运动员无过错、无疏忽，不构成兴奋剂违规。” 6park.com
Beijing has called the reports “fake news and not factual.” At a Monday news conference, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin added that “the Chinese swimmers involved were neither at fault nor guilty of negligence, and their behavior did not constitute a doping violation.” 6park.com
   
与此同时，俄罗斯正眼睁睁地看着中国游泳运动员似乎避开了一桩丑闻的影响，这桩丑闻涉及的药物与导致俄罗斯少女明星卡米拉·瓦利耶娃(Kamila Valieva)在2022年北京冬奥会上被取消参赛资格的药物相同。瓦利耶娃被取消参赛资格使俄罗斯奥委会(Russian Olympic Committee)失去一枚花样滑冰团体金牌。 6park.com
Russia, meanwhile, is watching Chinese swimmers seemingly dodge fallout from a scandal involving the same drug that resulted in the disqualification of its teenage star Kamila Valieva at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, which is set to cost the Russian Olympic Committee  a team figure skating gold medal. 


卡米拉·瓦利耶娃在2022年北京冬奥会上被取消参赛资格。

美国反兴奋剂机构已将两起案件的处理方式进行了对比。俄罗斯反兴奋剂机构没有立即回应置评请求。 6park.com
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has already drawn comparisons between the handling of the two cases. The Russian anti-doping agency didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.  6park.com
   
WADA官员周一表示，他们采取了恰当的行动，在推迟的东京夏季奥运会举行前，以对涉事运动员最公平的方式处理了一个困难局面。 6park.com
WADA officials said on Monday that they had acted appropriately to handle a difficult situation ahead of the delayed Summer Olympics in Tokyo in a way that was fairest to the athletes involved.  6park.com
   
他们说，在这23名中国游泳运动员中，大多数人的药检结果显示曲美他嗪的含量远低于瓦利耶娃，这与意外摄入的情况相符，不会提升她们的表现。而瓦利耶娃的解释前后不一致，与她的检测结果不符。 6park.com
Most of the 23 Chinese swimmers’ tests showed levels of trimetazidine that were far lower than Valieva’s, they said, and were consistent with accidental ingestion that did not benefit their performance, while her explanations changed over time and did not match her results.  6park.com
   
WADA的官员说，在中国运动员的案件中，WADA如果试图在国际体育法庭上质疑中国反兴奋剂中心有关运动员摄入受污染食物的解释，几乎肯定会败诉。 6park.com
In the case of the Chinese athletes, WADA almost certainly would have lost had it tried to challenge the Chinese anti-doping agency’s contamination explanation before an international sports court, WADA officials said. 6park.com
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“如果现在让我们重来一次，我们会采取完全相同的做法，”WADA总干事尼格利(Olivier Niggli)说。“事实上，无论运动员是什么国籍，我们都采用同样的标准和程序。 ” 6park.com
“If we had to do it over again now, we would do the exact same thing,” said director general Olivier Niggli. “The fact is that we apply the same standards and procedures regardless of the nationality of the athletes.”