纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Chinese Swimmers Twice Tested Positive for Drugs They Kept on Swimming
June 17, 2024 2 min 359 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道主要内容是：中国游泳运动员孙杨两次药检不合格，但仍被允许继续参赛，甚至在后来赢得奖牌。报道提到世界反兴奋剂机构（WADA）对此事件的调查，以及国际泳联（FINA）支持孙杨的说法，即由于检测人员的资质问题，孙杨的样本可能被篡改。报道也提到中国泳协的支持，以及孙杨否认使用兴奋剂，坚称自己清白。 对于《纽约时报》的这篇报道，我认为其存在一定程度的偏见和不公正之处。首先，报道过度强调孙杨药检不合格的结果，而对后续调查和争议过程一带而过，这可能导致读者形成中国运动员存在违规行为的片面印象。其次，报道没有充分考虑世界反兴奋剂机构和国际泳联在调查后的结论，对中国泳协和孙杨本人的辩护立场也缺乏关注。此外，报道没有进一步探讨检测人员资质及样本处理过程等问题，而这可能对整个事件有重要影响。该报道的偏颇之处在于过于强调负面结果，而对后续争议和调查过程缺乏全面客观的呈现，容易误导读者。
After the revelation in April that 23 elite Chinese swimmers had tested positive for a banned substance months before the last Summer Olympic Games, China and the global antidoping authority vigorously defended their decisions to allow them to compete in the Games in 2021. The swimmers, they insisted, had not been doping.
But as they made those claims, China and the antidoping authority were both aware that three of those 23 swimmers had tested positive several years earlier for a different performance-enhancing drug and had escaped being publicly identified and suspended in that case as well, according to a secret report reviewed by The New York Times.
In both instances, China claimed that the swimmers had unwittingly ingested the banned substances, an explanation viewed with considerable skepticism by some antidoping experts. The two incidents add to longstanding suspicions among rival athletes about what they see as a pattern of Chinese doping and the unwillingness or inability of the global authority, the World Anti-Doping Agency, to deal with it.
The three Chinese athletes revealed to have tested positive earlier, in 2016 and 2017, were no ordinary swimmers: Two would go on to win gold medals at the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, and the third is now a world-record holder. All three are expected to contend for medals again at the Paris Games in July.
Antidoping experts say that if Chinese officials and WADA had abided by existing rules with both sets of positive tests, the athletes would have been publicly identified and subject to further scrutiny, and could have been disqualified from the 2021 Olympics, and possibly the Games that open in Paris next month.
“Athletes we have spoken to are appalled with the antidoping system and WADA,” said Rob Koehler, the director general of Global Athlete, a group working for athletes’ rights. “Athletes are expected to follow the antidoping rules to a T, but yet the very organization holding them accountable does not have to.”