Olympics-Swimming-中国's swimmers racing to escape country's 麻薬ing past
By Farah Master
HONG KONG, July 19 (Reuters) - Chinese swimmers have struggled to escape the 影をつくる／尾行する of 疑惑 since a 洪水／多発 of 麻薬ing 事例／患者s in the 1990s and the four-year 禁止（する） 手渡すd out to ３倍になる Olympic 支持する／優勝者 Sun Yang will only bring them 追加するd scrutiny in Tokyo, former Olympians have told Reuters.
The 禁止（する） dished out to Sun, the pride of Chinese swimming, is fodder to those who had long harboured 疑惑s about the country's programme 予定 to its patchy 麻薬ing 記録，記録的な／記録する.
中国's swimming programme has seen its 評判 （名声などを）汚すd by a 一連の スキャンダルs, most 顕著に when one 女性（の） swimmer was caught with 13 vials of human growth hormone at Sydney airport ahead of the 1998 world 選手権s in Perth.
Beijing has since 誓約（する）d to 少しのd out 麻薬 cheats and the Chinese Swimming 協会 (CSA) has 定期的に 明言する／公表するd its resolute 対立 to the use of banned 実体s.
The CSA did not 答える／応じる to Reuters requests for comment for this article.
The スキャンダルs have often left Chinese swimmers 取引，協定ing with questions over their 業績／成果s.
No sooner had 十代の少年少女 Ye Shiwen stepped out of the London pool after setting a world 記録，記録的な／記録する to 勝利，勝つ gold at the 2012 Olympics did the 主張s begin to 渦巻く.
Just 16 at the time, Ye, who has never 実験（する）d 肯定的な for 麻薬ing, was 軍隊d to fend off questions and insinuations of cheating, and （刑事）被告 her critics of 存在 biased against Chinese 競技者s.
"My results come from hard work and training and I would never use any banned 麻薬s," she told reporters in London. "The Chinese people have clean 手渡すs."
She did not 答える／応じる to Reuters requests for comment for this article.
多重の Olympic and world 支持する／優勝者 Sun did not 実験（する） 肯定的な for a banned 実体 but the 法廷，裁判所 of 仲裁 for Sport 一時停止するd him in June after he and members of his 側近 were 設立する to have 粉砕するd vials 含む／封じ込めるing 血 見本s taken at an out-of-競争 te st in September 2018.
Sun, who also served a three-month 禁止（する） for a 麻薬ing offence in 2014, questioned the 信任状 and 身元 of the testers and has 終始一貫して 布告するd his innocence. He will be 解放する／自由な to swim at the next Olympics in Paris in 2024.
Sun's lawyer Zhang Qihui said the swimmer was the 犠牲者 of a "political position in an international struggle," によれば a 声明 on his social マスコミ Weibo page.
"It is a pity for 中国 and even the world that such an 極端に talented 競技者 has fallen into the 手渡すs of an international organisation controlled by some people," he said.
Zhang did not 明示する which organization he was referring to.
Sun and Zhang did not 答える／応じる to Reuters requests for comment.
'VILIFIED'
A former Olympic swimmer who retired after the Rio Games and did not want to be 指名するd 予定 to the sensitivity of the 問題／発行する said it was hard to change perceptions about the country's swimming programme 予定 to the スキャンダルs.
"The Chinese are definitely vilified. For 競技者s from other countries, you don't get people 告発する／非難するing the whole country of 麻薬ing," he said, 追加するing that 麻薬ing is 極端に 流布している across many different countries.
In interviews with Reuters, five former Olympians said Chinese swimmers 準備するing for the Tokyo Olympics would 直面する 増加するd public scrutiny 予定 to Sun's 禁止（する）.
They also said Sun had been portrayed in a いっそう少なく favourable light over his 麻薬ing 主張s compared with 競技者s in 類似の positions from countries such as Australia and the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.
Some fellow swimmers such as Britain's Adam Peaty had called for a lifetime 禁止（する） for Sun, while Australia's Mack Horton 辞退するd to 株 a podium with him after the Chinese swimmer won the 400m 自由型 at the 2019 world 選手権s.
Former Olympic 支持する／優勝者 Matt Biondi said he did not believe there was anti-Chinese 感情 in the sport but that the culture was very different and more formal.
"I don't think the Chines e do themselves any favours," said the American, now the 経営者／支配人 of the newly 開始する，打ち上げるd International Swimmers 同盟.
"They very much keep themselves 孤立するd and so it sort of is reflective of the opinion of the outside world. I think 基本的に people feel as though they have tried to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the system with 麻薬s and so that's not 権利."
Chinese netizens have mostly 決起大会／結集させるd around Sun since the his 禁止（する）, 称讃するing the ３倍になる Olympic and 11-times world 支持する／優勝者 for all his 業績／成就s as the 29-year old 公約するd to 固執する with his career.
(付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Alan Baldwin in London and the Beijing newsroom; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
