The anti-doping appeal of the United States resembles a thief's trick of crying "Stop, thief!", said a video commentary released by China Central Television (CCTV) on Friday.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Wednesday released its statement on a Reuters story exposing a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency(USADA) scheme in direct contravention of the World Anti-Doping Code.
The statement says that "USADA allowed athletes who had doped, to compete for years, in at least one case without ever publishing or sanctioning their anti-doping rule violations, in direct contravention of the World Anti-Doping Code and USADA's own rules."
At the ongoing Paris Olympics, the U.S. accused Chinese swimmers of using performance enhancing drugs, while turning a blind eye to the fact that Chinese athletes received three times more doping tests than American athletes, that WADA gave the report proving that Chinese athletes did not dope, and that the faces of some U.S. swimmers at the Paris 2024 turned purple after finishing a race.
The doping feud ignited by the U.S. has backfired.
In March this year, U.S. track and field athlete Erriyon Knighton tested positive for steroid trenbolone, and USADA claimed that it was because he ate polluted meat and decided not to suspend him from competitions. Therefore, Knighton still competed at the Paris Olympics on behalf of the U.S.
In April this year, another U.S. track and field athlete Aldridge Bailey tested positive for oseltamivir, an androgen receptor modulator, but USADA did not suspend him, either, claiming that it was because Bailey's neoprene leg compression sleeve was polluted. However, oseltamivir is not a common pollutant.
The history of U.S. sports is a history of fraud and cover-up as American Marathon runner Thomas John Hicks, who won a gold medal in 1904 by use of strychnine, was confirmed as the first case of a doping athlete.
The U.S. sought to play new tricks with the development and improvement of anti-doping rules. Its government tried to find fault with other countries under the anti-doping pretext, while trying all means to legalize doping for U.S. athletes.
The U.S. has made its law claiming its jurisdiction over doping matters around the world, and carried out investigation into disobedient countries, and even global arrests. The WADA would not comply with it, so the U.S. wanted to push for legislation to freeze the funds of the agency.
The United States can also be said to be "state-led" in condoning its athletes' drug use. As early as in 1977, the U.S. President's Commission on Olympic Sports reported on the use of performance enhancing drugs among American athletes as an national institutional failure.
A few years earlier, some Russian hackers broke into WADA's database, and according to the data they revealed, over 70 percent of U.S. swimmers and 74 percent of U.S. track and field athletes enjoyed therapeutic use exemptions at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, including swimmer Michael Fred Phelps, gymnast Simone Biles, and tennis player Venus Williams and her sister Serena Williams.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which established WADA, has threatened the U.S. with terminating the deal for the 2034 Winter Games in Salt Lake City if the authority of WADA is challenged. Even Gene Sykes, chairman of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, has expressed his support for the World Anti-Doping Code.
With Los Angeles to host the 2028 Summer Olympics and Salt Lake City to host 2034 Winter Games, the U.S. is likely to become more antagonistic with WADA and the IOC and lose its way in a double standard.
U.S. anti-doping appeal resembles thief crying "Stop, thief"
