US Subpoenas World Aquatics Executive Director to Testify in Chinese Swimmers’ Doping Probe

The probe comes just weeks before the Olympics in Paris later this month.

An underwater view shows China's Li Bingjie in a heat for the women's 400 meter freestyle swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on July 25, 2021. François-Xavier Marit/AFP via Getty Images

The United States has opened a probe into a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who were allowed to compete in the 2021 Olympics, despite testing positive for doping.

World Aquatics said that the U.S. government had issued a subpoena to its executive director to testify as a witness in the probe, just weeks ahead of the Paris Olympics.