MELBOURNE, China's doping case will probably be an additional supply of motivation for Australia's swimmers on the Paris Olympics, based on rising freestyle specialist Flynn Southam.
Southam, a part of the world championship-winning 100 meters freestyle relay staff in Fukuoka final yr, mentioned his staff mates had mentioned revelations that 23 Chinese language swimmers had failed drug assessments for a banned substance earlier than the Tokyo Video games.
“Yeah, there have been just a few issues going round, primarily simply athletes speaking with different athletes and evaluating notes on the way it made us really feel,” Southam mentioned in feedback printed by Information Corp media on Monday.
“I suppose it’s gas to the hearth, however on the identical time we’re not going to get caught up within the narratives of anybody else.
“We’re simply there to do our job and our job is to do the perfect we are able to and capitalize on the assist we get from the Australian public.”
The 23 swimmers have been cleared earlier than Tokyo by a Chinese language investigation which mentioned they have been inadvertently uncovered to the drug trimetazidine, a coronary heart treatment, by way of contamination.
The World Anti-Doping Company accepted the reason in 2021 however final week appointed a Swiss prosecutor to overview the case after mounting stress from the worldwide swimming group.
Western Australian Southam added to his voice to a refrain of main swimmers who’ve discovered the Chinese language case onerous to swallow.
“There's two sides to it, you've received to dam it out as a result of it’s not in your management,” the 18-year-old mentioned.
“However on the identical time it’s a bit infuriating once I give my tackle and my whereabouts day-after-day for an hour a day to get drug examined from doping companies and when one thing like that comes up it actually makes you query why we’re even doing that.
“I'm all about clear sport, truthful sport. I don't assume that dishonest aligns with the ethics and morals of the Olympics.”
China mentioned on Friday it will cooperate with WADA's investigation and criticized media for releasing “inappropriate” studies.
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