Doping Suspicions Persist At Olympic Games

NPR

Published August 4, 2021 at 5:05 AM EDT

The running joke at the Tokyo Olympics is that because of the pandemic, there have never been more positive tests, and almost none of them are for doping. But the ongoing specter of doping continues.

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