We are less than a hundred days from the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris.

And a new doping scandal has erupted involving Olympic swimmers from China.

Nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete despite testing positive

for a banned drug prior to the Tokyo Games. Jeffrey Brown has the story.

Several of the swimmers who tested positive went on to win. the the drug

TMZ but cleared the swimmers and did not flag problems to Olympic or other officials.

In fact, none of this was widely known until the New York Times and a German TV broadcaster broke the story

this weekend.

TMZ is the same drug that led to Russian Olympic figure skater, Camilla Valjevas four-year ban, after she was disqualified from the

2022 Beijing Olympics. For now Chinese officials and Wada stand by the results of

their initial investigation saying the use of the

drug was not intentional. But that has not satisfied many in the sports world

including the US anti-doping agency.

Its CEO, Travis Tigert, joins me now.

And welcome to you.

Your contention is that this should have been raised well before those Olympics and gone through a more standard process?

It's not just my contention, it's actually the rules require it.

And it's beyond question that China didn't follow the rules.

They effectively swept this under the carpet

because they didn't find a violation.

They didn't announce a violation.

They didn't disqualify the athletes from the event at which they tested positive.

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