With the Paris Olympics weeks away, China’s swimmers have been caught up in the latest state-sponsored doping scandal.

The schemes may change, from the East German steroids of 50 years ago to the recent Russian mass urine-test falsifications, but the corrosive, demoralizing effect on clean athletes never changes. After years of training and intrusive testing, clean American swimmers find themselves competing against Chinese athletes who used performance-enhancing drugs.

“We have to pull our shorts below our knees and our shirts up to our chests,” Allison Schmitt, a ten-time Olympic swimming medalist, said as she described the testing to the House committee investigating the Chinese doping, “while someone bends over and watches the pee come out.” Michael Phelps, a 23-time swimming gold medalist, testified that he had as many as 150 such intrusive drug tests in a year, more than entire national teams, and often had to provide four to six vials of blood.

A New York Times investigation recently revealed that, just before the 2021 Tokyo........

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