The full-blown media battle rages on in Paris 2024 as the World Anti-Doping Agency and its national counterparts from China and the US keep throwing darts at each other, the latest pointing to the Americans allowing proven dopers to keep competing as undercover agents.

Stephan Mayer, sport spokesperson of the Bavarian conservative party (CSU), targeted Witold Banka during an interview with local outlet Deutshclandfunk published on Tuesday in which he addressed the latest shortcomings of the World Anti-Doping Agency in the Chinese swimming probe.

No Olympic truce when it comes to the public-relations war between the World Anti-Doping Agency and United States officials and media outlets regarding the handling of positive cases from China’s swimming team, who added another pair of suspect athletes to their expanding 2024 file on Tuesday.

Some call it a curveball, others a forceful twist of the arm and the most daring might use the word ‘blackmail’ but “unprecedented” seems like the best fit when addressing the International Olympic Committee’s decision to award the next Winter Games “with conditions” to the French Alps and Utah.

Chiefs of the US Olympic Team are urging the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to put an end to their ongoing friction.

After the International Olympic Committee attached the decision to award Salt Lake City the 2034 Winter Games to an American alignment with the World Anti-Doping Agency’s policies on Wednesday, president Witold Banka again doubled down on his stance regarding the controversial Rodchenkov Act.

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) issued a strongly worded statement criticising the United States for what it sees as attempts to "undermine the role and independence of the World Anti-Doping Agency" (WADA).

Despite growing criticism from many in the sport world and American groups specifically, the International Olympic Committee validated the World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent report in the case of 23 positive tests from China and expressed its "full confidence" in the global watchdog.

No rest for the World Anti-Doping Agency on the Chinese doping probe as Global Athlete and FairSport issue a joint statement following the independent prosecutor’s findings, which USADA says “leaves most critical questions unanswered”.

Issamade 'Issam' Asinga, who blamed his positive drug test on "eating recovery gummies", will be stripped of his titles as South American double sprint champion and world U20 100m record holder for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) and banned for four years from 9 August 2023 by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

Like a constant drizzle, criticism and demands for clarification keep pouring over the World Anti-Doping agency s handling of the 23 positive tests from China’s 2021 swimming team. American politicians have now united in their ask for answers from the global watchdog, the Associated Press reports.

Just as it sparred again with the United States Anti-doping Agency (USADA), the global body updated its Foundation Board on the latest developments in the scandal involving the 23 swimmers from China in 2021 and insisted on food contamination as the source of the failed tests.

The former World Anti-Doping Agency President discussed the fall-out from the Chinese swimmers doping scandal and accused the agency from the other side of the border of seeking to undermine the global body with "lies and distortions".

With the Olympics less than three months away and the aftermath of the Chinese doping scandal still lingering, worldwide suspicions about an uneven playing field won’t die down; but it’s in the United States, where the news broke, that the World Anti-Doping Agency faces the biggest pushback.