对最近巴黎奥运会的虚伪和恶意报道的金牌奖应该颁给《纽约时报》（NYT）。
《纽约时报》自称其使命是“寻求真相并帮助人们了解世界”。该报拥有1700多名记者，派驻在150多个国家，实际上是美国政府维护美国在世界各地影响力和霸权的工具。其刊登的许多所谓“独立”观点的文章、调查报告和评论都是披著羊皮的战狼宣传文章。
过去几个月《纽约时报》关注的主要体育赛事是巴黎奥运。不过，中国则成了该报记者诽谤、抹黑和诋毁的目标，就像该报在国际新闻的大部分报道一样，不管任何课题，都是指向中国，这与拜登和特朗普看法相同：也就是，中国是美国最重要的竞争对手，很可能“吃掉我们的（美国）午餐”。
在体育界，中国最近在奥运会和其他国际赛事的表现，表明了中国已成了强大竞争对手，也引起全球新闻关注。
为了对抗中国在巴黎的成就所带来的软实力影响，从4月初到最近，《纽约时报》已经连发了20多篇文章，重点关注于中国游泳运动员药检呈阳的故事。
第一篇报导〈中国游泳选手东京奥运会前药检阳性，仍参赛并夺牌〉于4月20日刊登。随后发表了一系列文章，标题深具挑衅，旨在诽谤中国体育当局和游泳运动员，例如〈中国游泳运动员两次药检呈阳性 仍继续参赛〉、〈中国禁药案引发轩然大波，但中国除外〉、〈美国队被骗了：中国游泳选手药检风波引发争议与愤怒〉、〈中国游泳运动员兴奋剂检测呈阳引发了愤怒〉 。
除了扮演著的法官和陪审团角色外，《纽约时报》还煽动美中两国敌意，刊出了标题为〈拜登政府官员呼吁对中国游泳禁药事件展开独立调查〉，称美国联邦调查局和司法部已对中国禁药事件展开刑事调查。
《纽约时报》的报导中缺失了全部事实，中国禁药事件已成为世界药检机构和游泳机构，如世界反兴奋剂机构（WADA）和世界泳联（WA）特别调查的案件，而中国和美国也是这两大机构的成员。
反驳《纽约时报》故事
世界反兴奋剂机构对《纽约时报》报导中国游泳队禁药新闻，于4月29日发文回应，以下是世界反兴奋剂机构有关《中国游泳选手食物污染案情况说明书/常见问题》六页文件的摘录
2021年1月1日至3日，中国反兴奋剂机构（CHINADA）在全国游泳比赛中采集了60份中国游泳选手的尿液样本。共有201名游泳选手参加比赛。该赛事并非奥运预选赛。
在新冠疫情造成一定的延误后，这些样本报告于2021年3月15日左右，由位于北京的世界反兴奋剂机构认可实验室提呈至世界反兴奋剂机构反兴奋剂管理系统(ADAMS)。共有28个样本对违禁物质曲美他嗪（TMZ）呈阳性，涉及23名运动员，这意味著其中少数人多次检测呈阳性。
2021年6月15日，世界反兴奋剂机构获悉中国反兴奋剂机构决定接受中方的说辞，即2021年初23名游泳选手因在参加比赛时下榻的一家酒店食用了酒店供应的食物后，无意中摄入了违禁药物曲美他嗪（酒店厨房调味料容器、抽风机和沟渠中也检测到曲美他嗪），因而检测结果呈阳性。因此，他们不会以违反反兴奋剂规则（ADRV）处理相关案件。
根据条例，这项决定在呈于世界反兴奋剂机构之际，也呈给了世界泳联（前国际泳联）。
世界反兴奋剂机构为了确定是否对有关决定上诉时，世界反兴奋剂机构仔细审查了中国反兴奋剂机构的决定，并于6月21日要求提供完整的案件档案。
世界泳联也要求并收到了与世界反兴奋剂机构完全相同的案件档案。他们进行了审查。
从曲美他嗪药理学专家收集、评估和测试的所有科学证据和报告；以及反兴奋剂专家说法，世界反兴奋剂机构无法依据《世界反兴奋剂条例》来挑战中国反兴奋剂机构关于环境/食品污染的调查结果——世界泳联也持有了同样的立场。
世界反兴奋剂机构对此案的科学调查和法律决定结果坚持不变。我们同样相信，世界反兴奋剂机构的独立检察官对收到的所有指控采取了后续行动，但这些指控没有任何证据证实，因此无法令检察官说服，采取任何调查行动。
迄今为止，《纽约时报》尚未就世界反兴奋剂机构和世界泳联回应给予全面的报导。《纽约时报》诽谤和恶意报导，暗示著世界反兴奋剂机构和世界泳联这两大国际组织，偏袒中国和试图压下有关丑闻。
世界反兴奋剂机构报告的结论部分是，《纽约时报》的记者团队最好不要试图将政治带入体育、文化或任何其他与美国政治议程和利益无关的领域。
世界反兴奋剂机构了解到，一些利益相关者可能不同意本案的结果。然而，如果因此指责世界反兴奋剂机构掩盖事实、偏袒中国的阴谋论，是令人愤慨、毫无根据、诽谤的。世界反兴奋剂机构没有掩盖这些案件，反之在2021年至2023年的不同时间点，对这些案件进行了彻底审查并与多个国际组织进行了讨论。最终，我们希望各利益相关者考虑本案的事实和证据，不要忽略运动员是食物污染受害者的观点。
扰乱中国选手
很明显，《纽约时报》团队正像美国前女子花式滑冰运动员谭雅哈丁般，通过间接手段攻击对手，扰乱中国选手的准备工作并破坏他们赛前的心理建设。西方媒体不断报导类似的故事，导致中国游泳队不得不接受奥运史上最多的药检。
然而，这种将药检案武器化的做法似乎产生了反效果，中国在巴黎奥运会上赢得的游泳奖牌（12枚）多于在东京奥运会（6枚）和2022年世界游泳锦标赛（4枚）获得的奖牌。
从许多社交媒体、部落格以及奥运游泳比赛后数十万群众的正面回馈，是《纽约时报》和其他西方媒体在污蔑中国方面失败的最明显证据。大多数人的结论是：
西方媒体和《纽约时报》在公平和独立体育报导上自我严重降格。
这就是俗话说的“因果报应，自作自受”。
林德宜《巴黎奥运媒体虚伪金牌得主》原文：Paris Olympics Media Hypocrisy: Gold Medal Winner
The gold medal for hypocritical and malicious reporting of the recent Paris Olympics should be given to the New York Times (NYT).
According to its self proclaimed credentials the paper “seeks the truth and helps people understand the world”. With over 1700 journalists reporting from more than 150 countries, the paper in reality is a tool of the US government in its effort to maintain US influence and hegemony throughout the world. Many of the so-called ‘independent’ opinion pieces, investigative reports and reviews it publishes are propaganda wolf warrior pieces in sheep’s clothing.
The key sporting event that the NYT has focused on during the past few months has been the Paris Olympics. Clearly the country target for its reporters to cast aspersions on, smear and take down - as with much of the paper’s reporting on international news whatever the subject matter - is China, a country which the paper views in the same way as both Biden and Trump : that is, America's most serious competitor and likely “to eat our [American] lunch”.
In the sporting world, recent Olympic and other international level performances have shown that China's success is a formidable competitor for global news attention.
To combat any soft power impact arising from China's achievements in Paris, beginning from early April until recently, the paper has run over 20 articles to spotlight a story about Chinese swimmers who tested positive for drug use.
The first story “Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold” appeared on 20 April. This was followed by a series of articles, with provocative titles aimed at vilifying China's sports authorities and swimmers such as “Chinese Swimmers Twice Tested Positive for Drugs. They Kept on Swimming”, “An Uproar Over a Chinese Doping Case Except in China”, “Team USA Was Cheated: Chinese Doping Case Exposes Rift in Swimming” and “Anger Lingers Over Positive Doping Tests for Chinese Swimmers”.
Besides acting as judge and jury on the case, the paper also instigated US-China animosity by headlining that a top Biden official had called for an inquiry into the Chinese doping case, and that the FBI and Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation in the Chinese doping case.
Missing from the NYT reports are the full facts of the case which became the subject of a special investigation by the world’s top doping and swimming agencies, World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) and World Aquatics (WA), and of which both China and the US are members.
WADA Rebuttal of NYT Chinese Swimming Dope Story
The following are excerpts from the six page World Anti Doping Agency document, Contamination case of swimmers from China Fact Sheet / Frequently Asked
Questions, released on 29 April in response to the initial NYT report
Between 1 and 3 January 2021, the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) collected 60 urine samples of Chinese swimmers at a national swimming meet. There were 201 swimmers competing. This event was not a qualifying event for the Olympic Games.
After certain delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the samples were reported into WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) by the WADA-accredited laboratory in Beijing on or around 15 March 2021. There were 28 Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs) for the prohibited substance, trimetazidine (TMZ), involving 23 different swimmers, which means that a small number of them tested positive more than once.
On 15 June 2021, WADA was notified of the decision by CHINADA to accept that 23 swimmers had tested positive in early 2021 for TMZ, after inadvertently being exposed to the substance through food/environment contamination as a result of TMZ detected in the kitchen (including spice containers, the extraction fan above the hob and the drains); and that, they would not move forward with Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) cases.
This decision was also provided to World Aquatics (formerly FINA) at the same time as WADA, as required under the rules.
In order to determine whether WADA would exercise its right to appeal this decision, WADA carefully reviewed CHINADA’s decision and, on 21 June, WADA requested the full case file.
World Aquatics also requested and received the exact same case file as WADA. They undertook their own review.
Based on all available scientific evidence and intelligence, which was gathered, assessed and tested by experts in the pharmacology of TMZ; and, by anti-doping experts, WADA had no basis under the World Anti-Doping Code to challenge CHINADA’s findings of environmental/food contamination – a position that was also reached by World Aquatics.
WADA stands firmly by the results of its scientific investigation and legal decision concerning the case. We are equally confident that WADA’s independent I&I Department followed up on all allegations received, which were not corroborated by any evidence, and thus did not meet WADA I&I’s threshold to open an investigation
https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/2024-04_fact_sheet_faq_chinese_swimming.pdf
To date there has been no attempt by NYT to provide in full the WADA and WA response to its defamatory and malicious allegations insinuating of a cover up by China and of a conspiracy aimed at suppressing the story which involved the two key international agencies.
The concluding section of the WADA report is one that the team of reporters of the NYT would do well to remind themselves every time they attempt to bring politics into sports, culture or any other field that is not related to America’s political agenda and interests.
WADA understands that some stakeholders may disagree with the outcome of this case. However, to leap to conspiracy theories of cover-ups and favoritism towards China is outrageous, without basis and defamatory. Rather than cover up these cases, WADA reviewed them thoroughly and discussed them with multiple international organizations at different points in time from 2021 to 2023. Finally, we would invite stakeholders to consider the facts, the evidence of this case, and not to lose sight of the perspective of the athletes who were victims of contamination.
It is clear that the NYT team was engaging in kneecap whacking of China's swimmers ala Tanya Harding style by disrupting their preparation and undermining their psychological well being ahead of the competition. The stream of similar stories carried by Western media resulted in the China swimming team having to go through the most doping tests in the history of the Olympics.
This weaponization of the doping case story, however, appears to have had an opposite effect with China winning more swimming medals in Paris (12) than it won in Tokyo Olympics (6) and the 2022 World Aquatic Championships (4).
The clearest evidence of how the paper and other Western media have failed in stigmatising China is available from the numerous social media blogs and feedback from hundreds of thousands of viewers following the swimming events at the Games. The conclusion of most :
Western media and NYT’s reputation for fair and independent sports reporting has gone down more than several notches.
As the saying goes, “karma can be a bitch”.
