Nashville, TN – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) held a virtual press conference with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), House Select Committee on the CCP Chairman John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) to announce their Restoring Confidence in the World Anti-Doping Agency Act, which would bring accountability and transparency to the World Anti-Doping Agency following the Chinese doping scandal surrounding the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Recent reporting also revealed a new doping dispute in which two Chinese athletes tested positive in 2022 for a banned steroid and were secretly cleared by Chinese authorities.
The members were joined by Allison Wagner, an Olympic silver medalist and former world-record holder who won multiple silver medals to athletes later proven to have doped, and Greta Neimanas, a two-time Paralympian and long-time advocate for a level playing field for all athletes through anti-doping.
Remarks
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“Earlier this year, we …