“If you know you’re cheating, then you’re not really winning,” said British Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty after arriving at fourth place with his team in the 4x100m medley.
His comments were directed at the winners of said race, the Chinese team, specifically at Qin Haiyang and Sun Jiaju, who were among 11 swimmers allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics despite having previously tested positive for trace amounts of performance enhancing drugs.
This is not the first time China’s swimmers have been enveloped in controversy surrounding doping, as the pair are only two out of 23 of that nation’s athletes tested positive for the 2021 Tokyo Games.
