SUNY Cortland Professor Genevieve Birren Explores U.S. Government-WADA Dispute and Its Impact on the 2034 Winter Olympics

By Drew Schott In April 2024, The New York Times and German broadcaster ARD reported that 23 swimmers from the People’s Republic of China tested positive for a banned substance, trimetazidine (TMZ), seven months before the Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021. Thirteen of these athletes ended up competing in the Olympic Games after they were cleared of any wrongdoing by the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA), who claimed that small trace amounts of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a te