Travis Tygart:
Yes, listen, it's totally unbelievable to think that two months later, these athletes continued to be spotted eating in hotels during the coronavirus lockdown. And remember, it was the Chinese security guards who discovered it and this report that WADA just accepted that TMZ is somehow still in the kitchen of this hotel and that somehow the athlete's It was said that the system had been infiltrated.
I mean, I remember, and I'm sure many of your viewers do too, those awful times of the coronavirus pandemic. Many restaurants were not open. Those who were cleaning every day, if not every hour. So it's incredible to think that this drug that doesn't need to be in the kitchen somehow lasted two months in the kitchen during this coronavirus period.
But even if you believed that Tinker Bell came and sprinkled fairy dust, and that caused these positive tests, under the rules, you definitely still have to disqualify her. You still have to find the violation, and you still have to announce the violation.
And this is a tragedy for athletes. Because this could have been announced at the time and we wouldn't necessarily be here. Unfortunately, China did not follow the rules and allowed this to be covered up. And WADA played no role in effectively enforcing the rules.
And it took whistleblowers and others from the New York Times and Germany's documentary public broadcaster to come forward and expose what we're seeing now. And of course we're all scared. And you have to ask, why didn't they do what was necessary?
