During the IOC's 142nd session on July 24 in Paris, Stoss and his fellow IOC members voted to approve Salt Lake City-Utah as host of the XXVII Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Games 2034.
A foreign ministry spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday that the number of drug tests being performed on Chinese swimmers "far exceeds that of athletes from other countries." "Chinese swimmers are clean and have never feared testing," the spokesperson said.
Utah is the youngest state in the U.S. by average age at 31, and Salt Lake City is expected to double in downtown population in the three years between 2022 and 2025. Additionally, Salt Lake City–Utah 2034 has a "One Event, Two Games" concept, positioning itself as a top destination for para sports.
The World Anti-Doping Agency stood by its decision to clear the swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart medication months before the Tokyo Games began.
Some of the country's top swimmers - including Qin and his relay teammate Sun Jiajun- have faced a slew of doping allegations, followed by contentious US claims that the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) was covering it up.
Chinese officials said that the swimmers ingested the banned substance, trimetazidine, in tiny amounts as a result of accidental contamination. Officials at the World Anti-Doping Agency, the body empowered to keep banned substances out of elite sports, secretly accepted that defense and allowed them to keep competing.
July 12 (Reuters) - An investigation by American law enforcement into a doping case involving 23 Chinese swimmers could keep the United States from hosting future sporting events, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) said on Friday.