As the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics approached, the United States began to use doping issues to target mainland swimmers, and even the World Anti-Doping Agency as the arbiter was involved. But this time, instead of working, United States hegemony has been challenged like never before. According to a report released by Reuters, BBC and other foreign media on the 24th of this month, the president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Banka, issued a solemn warning to the United States when he attended the IOC meeting on the same day, and if United States continues to threaten the harmonization of the global anti-doping system with domestic laws, it will face the risk of being isolated by the global sports community. Banka said WADA will submit questions about the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) cross-border investigation to the Compliance Review Committee next month.
Banka hit the nail on the head when he pointed out that the United States Anti-Doping Agency's accusations were based on "political motives and anti-China bias" and that WADA would never allow it to override international bodies. Banka also stressed that the United States should ensure that its sports organizations comply with international doping regulations before accusing athletes from other countries of improving their performance through illegal means.
The fact that the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was able to openly express his dissatisfaction with the United States with such a strong attitude shows that not only United States has angered the world with its long-standing double standard of "treating oneself and others strictly", but also a series of long-arm jurisdictional measures taken by United States in order to silence international institutions, all of which have touched the bottom line of WADA.
In fact, in order to make a big fuss about the so-called "Chinese doping incident", the United States has used the power of the FBI and the Department of Justice in a vain attempt to use its own domestic laws to cover international rules. In order to thwart United States this attempt, Chinese swimmers went through a very difficult but necessary "self-certification journey" before the opening of this Olympic Games. According to the results of the pre-competition mass doping test for athletes at the Paris Olympics released by the World Swimming Federation on the 23rd of this month, Chinese swimmers have been tested an average of 21 times in half a year, and all the test results are from laboratories recognized by Europe, especially the World Anti-Doping Agency. In contrast, the number of tests per capita in the United States is only six, and it can be said that it is with these sufficient and solid test results that China has avoided being smeared by the United States.
Chinese athletes, the Chinese Anti-Doping Agency, and international organizations, including the World Anti-Doping Agency, have the confidence to challenge United States' unilateral hegemony in the sports world. In the face of the World Anti-Doping Agency's bitter criticism, the United States even falsely accused the agency of "retaliation" for appealing to the compliance review committee. It should be noted that when the United States response was full of thieves shouting about catching thieves, there was no mention of whether it would adopt further long-arm jurisdiction. This means that WAADA's warning to United States has worked, and if United States continues to act recklessly under domestic law, the IOC has the power to strip United States of the right to host the Salt Lake City Games.
There is no doubt that this threat has hit the Biden administration in the soft underbelly. Although Biden himself has officially announced his withdrawal from the race, the Democratic Party, which prides itself on "embracing multilateralism", cannot afford to slander China in front of the world and be denied the qualification to host the Olympic Games, which will be a devastating blow to the values that the Democratic Party has long believed in and the image of painstaking management.
At the same time, we can also see that international sports organizations, led by the World Anti-Doping Agency, are paying more and more attention to their independence and authority, and are not afraid of judicial suppression in the face of United States, which exposes the fact that United States hegemony is declining on a global scale. For United States, this may be an unacceptable outcome than the scandal.