Doping scandal thread for when someone fails test

I thought the scandal was that the Chinese swimmers would be there. Are they not there?

After watching the Tour de France, I'm curious what happens in the endurance events.

Saw a youtuber report that a French gymnast (an alternate) popped for something. She published it in Russian. I'll see if I can get an English citation.

I did find this interesting headline from 7 days ago: French women’s gymnastics team excels under new training regimen. Just in time for Paris Olympics
AP

Here we go:
French gymnast disqualified for doping before start of Olympics
athletistic
During the French Championships, the athlete underwent a doping test which proved positive for salbutamol. This drug is generally included in medications used to treat asthma.

This drug has been the subject of a lot of controversy over the years. Probably shouldn't be banned or at least the threshold needs to be elevated. Lot of athletes have exercise-induced asthma. Unless her levels were sky high this is probably another injustice from the idiots at WADA.

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They gave the Russian skater 4yr ban for TMZ, so this is interesting.

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They allegedly found traces in a salt shaker at a Chinese training facility. By they i mean chinada. The levels were also incredibly low. Story is fishy, though.

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TMZ is not a PED though. There's no literature to show an effect and the mechanism doesn't exist. This is a problem with WADA - they don't require any evidence in order to ban something. Shifting some cardiac metabolism to glucose makes no sense - fat is dominant at rest and it throttles that pathway in order to shift more to glucose which is a losing proposition mathematically, and at high intensities the heart is almost entirely reliant on lactate.

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I honestly know nothing on this substance to agree or disagree. Being mid 40s let's me sleep on what's new on the wada banned list. I didn't know what vadadustat was either, but I'm very suspicious when a drug not even on the us market, that is basically and epo producer, ends up in a distance swimmer's body. Even if we swam at the same college and club team, decades apart, it's still pretty shady looking.

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WADA is a gang of tards.

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Any group that would make Dick Pound their first president is sus af. I had a TUE (therapeutic use exemption) for my add meds, but the ncaa was very specific about not being hot in competition. A lot of foreigners hate on the high % of us swimmers for steroid asthma inhalers TUEs, and I get their point. Their goal is equality, but the results aren't indicating that's how it's playing out. Different length bans for the same substance is as goofy as it comes.