纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英House Panel Seeks FBI Investigation Into Doping by Chinese Swimmers
May 25, 2024 2 min 337 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道主要聚焦美国众议院通过一项决议，要求FBI调查中国游泳运动员涉嫌服用兴奋剂的问题。报道提到，这项决议是基于此前一份关于中国游泳运动员兴奋剂问题的报道，该报道声称中国游泳运动员在2000年至2004年奥运会期间可能接受了政府支持的兴奋剂计划。 评论： 这篇报道存在明显偏见，企图以炒作中国运动员涉嫌使用兴奋剂来博眼球，其动机值得商榷。首先，报道所基于的证据是间接的，甚至有些牵强，更多的是基于“可能”和“猜测”，缺乏直接有力的证据链。其次，报道没有考虑到中国在反兴奋剂斗争中的努力和成果，一味地抹黑和指责，有失公允。另外，美国众议院在这个时候通过这项决议，难免会让人联想到某种政治目的，尤其是在中美关系复杂敏感的当下，这更容易让人质疑其背后的意图。 客观地说，反兴奋剂是全球体育界共同的责任，不应被政治化，任何运动员和体育项目都应遵循公平公正的原则，媒体也应秉持公正客观的态度，而不是以有色眼镜看待某一国家的运动员，进行不负责任的炒作。
The House select committee on China has asked the Justice Department and F.B.I. to investigate reports that Chinese authorities covered up positive doping tests for nearly half the swim team it sent to the last Olympic Games and that the global antidoping regulator failed to take action.
In a letter sent late Tuesday, the committee asked that the authorities use a law passed in 2020 in the wake of another doping scandal, involving Russia, that gives the Justice Department the power to criminally prosecute those who help athletes dope at international competitions, regardless of whether the offenses occur on American soil.
“This scandal raises serious legal, ethical and competitive concerns and may constitute a broader state-sponsored strategy by the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) to unfairly compete at the Olympic Games in ways Russia has previously done,” the panel’s chairman, Representative John Moolenaar, Republican of Michigan, and its senior Democrat, Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, said in a letter to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray.
The letter could put additional political pressure on the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation to ratchet up scrutiny of China’s athletic program and the organization responsible for policing the use of banned performance enhancers, the World Anti-Doping Agency, just two months before the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
The New York Times reported last month that 23 elite Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the same powerful drug months before the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games but were allowed to compete after Chinese officials secretly cleared them of wrongdoing and the antidoping agency, known as WADA, declined take action.
The swimmers went on to win medals in five events at the 2021 games, including three gold. Several of the swimmers are favorites to win medals at the Paris Olympics in July.