Katie Ledecky referenced allegations around Chinese doping in her opening press conference at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, saying she hopes to face “clean” athletes in the coming weeks.
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned drug trimetazidine months before the last Olympics, in Tokyo, but were still allowed to compete after the World Anti-Doping Agency accepted an explanation from Chinese authorities that the athletes had stayed at a hotel with a contaminated kitchen.
