United States Anti-Doping Company (Usada) chief government Travis Tygart stated it was “crushing” to listen to of the optimistic exams earlier than an Olympic Video games.
He stated the World Anti-Doping Company (Wada) and Chinada had “swept these positives underneath the carpet by failing to pretty and evenly comply with the worldwide guidelines that apply to everybody else on the planet”, whereas athletes “impacted by this potential cover-up” had been “deeply and painfully betrayed by the system”.
“All of these with soiled palms in burying optimistic exams and suppressing the voices of brave whistleblowers have to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the principles and legislation,” Tygart added.
Britain’s Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty questioned why the data was not launched earlier, including: “So disappointing from Wada.”
In response to Tygart’s assertion, Wada stated it was “astonished by the outrageous, utterly false and defamatory remarks” and his “very critical accusations in opposition to Wada”, including that it had referred his feedback to its legal professionals.
“Mr Tygart’s allegations are politically motivated,” Wada added, and “the damaging feedback have been delivered with none supporting proof by any means”.
Tygart has since accused Wada of “threats and scare techniques”.
Wada earlier confirmed to BBC Sport it was notified of Chinada’s determination in June 2021.
The world physique stated it “fastidiously reviewed” the case and consulted impartial consultants to “check the contamination concept” in addition to exterior authorized counsel.
Wada concluded it was “not able to disprove the likelihood that contamination was the supply of TMZ”, the athletes bore “no fault” and an enchantment in opposition to Chinada’s determination was “not warranted”.
Olivier Rabin, Wada’s senior director of science and medication, added: “The contamination state of affairs was additional supported by the mixture of the persistently low concentrations of TMZ in addition to no doping sample with a number of athletes presenting a number of samples collected over the course of a number of days which fluctuated between detrimental and optimistic [and vice versa].”