House China Panel Asks Feds to Probe Doping in Chinese Olympic Swim Team

The probe comes just a few months before the Summer Olympics in Paris.

An underwater view shows China's Li Bingjie in a heat for the women's 400m 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 House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has asked the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate the Chinese regime for allegedly covering up positive doping tests of China’s Olympic swim team.

The probe comes ahead of the Summer Olympics in Paris, which will be held between July 26 and Aug. 11.