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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Lilly King<\/strong> and Yulia Efimova<\/strong> exchanged finger wags before they faced off in the women\u2019s 100 breast at the Olympic Games, 1996 Olympic silver medalist\u00a0Allison Wagner<\/strong>\u00a0felt\u00a0a bit\u00a0of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n

After Efimova won the first semifinal and King the second, Wagner was watching on television\u00a0as King explained to the world why she believed Efimova\u2014twice suspended for positive drug tests\u2014did not deserve to be competing at the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

It was when Wagner read that King had been called \u201cunsportsmanlike\u201d for speaking out that Wagner decided to do the same.\u00a0After all, Wagner knows exactly what it feels like to compete against someone who has taken performance-enhancing substances.<\/p>\n

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Allison Wagner; Photo Courtesy: USA Swimming<\/p><\/div>\n

Wagner won a pair of silver medals in the 200 and 400 IM at the World Championships in Rome in 1994, both times finishing behind Chinese swimmers (L\u00fc Bin<\/strong> and Dai Guohong<\/strong>, respectively). China won 12 of 16 women\u2019s gold medals at that meet, drawing heavy suspicion of performance-enhancing drug use\u2014later proven to be true<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Wagner won the silver medal in the 400 IM at the Atlanta Olympics, coming in three seconds behind gold medalist Michelle Smith<\/strong> of Ireland.\u00a0Smith came out of nowhere to take home four medals from Atlanta, three of them gold. While swimming in an outside lane, she clocked 4:39.18 to win the 400 IM, almost twenty seconds quicker than the time she had swum\u00a0four years earlier at the Games in Barcelona (4:58.94).<\/p>\n

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Michelle Smith; Photo Courtesy: Tim Morse (1996)<\/p><\/div>\n

With that massive improvement, eyebrows were raised as to the legitimacy of Smith\u2019s times, and Wagner, Janet Evans<\/strong> and others were among those with\u00a0serious doubts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was evident to me and everybody else I talked to that she was suspect,\u201d Wagner said about drug use during the 1996 Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After years of racing the Chinese women, Wagner had learned the telltale signs of a doper\u2014facial hair, deeper voices, changing muscle complexion, actual ring marks from where the injections had been given and association with proven violators.<\/p>\n

But Wagner had to wait two years for her concerns about Smith to be validated<\/a>. In 1998, Smith was banned four years for tampering with her urine sample with alcohol. Later on, it was determined that that sample as well as two previous ones had included traces of androstenedione, a precursor to testosterone.<\/p>\n

Still, Wagner did not feel vindicated\u2014she felt betrayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was disappointed it took that long,\u201d Wagner\u00a0said. \u201cShe tampered with her sample. There\u2019s no way an athlete should be able to do that if anti-doping standards and procedures are upheld.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wagner explained that an anti-doping agent is to remain by the side of an athlete being tested throughout the entire process of an out-of-competition test. Why did that not happen for Smith, and why had she not been banned earlier if traces of a steroid had already been found?<\/p>\n

Smith was out, and she would never return to the sport. But she took with her the four medals from Atlanta into retirement and never had to give them back.\u00a0Her\u00a0samples from the Olympics were tested in 1996 and came back clean, and she continued\u2014and, in fact, continues to this day\u2014to deny that she ever used illegal drugs. But even with more modern testing methods now available, those samples have not been looked at again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when it\u2019s proven that the athletes doped, those races should be reviewed,” Wagner said. “Those athletes\u2019 [samples] should be retested.”<\/p>\n

Just like many other cheated out of their rightful place in history<\/a>, nothing of the sort ever happened. Wagner still has the silver, having never heard from anyone at the International Olympic Committee about the situation.<\/p>\n

Fast forward twenty years, and performance-enhancing drugs remain a major presence in swimming.\u00a0Just two months ago, the entire Russian swim team competed at the Olympics in Rio despite the McLaren report outlining the country\u2019s state-sponsored doping system.<\/p>\n

And what happens when an athlete gets caught cheating and tests positive? Two-year ban, right?\u00a0Well, not so fast. China\u2019s Sun Yang<\/strong> was out for just three months after a positive test in 2014, and Efimova was suspended 16 months in 2013 so that she would be eligible just in time\u00a0to qualify for the 2015 World Championships\u2014set to be held in Russia, of all places.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people forget this is a sport, a game,\u201d Wagner said. \u201cYou have to follow the rules. You can\u2019t just make up a new turn that breaks the rules and expect to not get disqualified.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see doping regulations treated like rules regarding stroke in swimming. I think [anti-doping] decisions seem more arbitrary and more influenced by other factors besides the standards that are supposed to be in place no matter what.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More than anything else, Wagner wants to start a real dialogue about doping in sports and help foster an environment where athletes will not be afraid to speak out when they believe illegal substances are in use.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese drugs, they don\u2019t work like caffeine\u2014they\u2019re not short-term drugs, and they can affect you for a very long time,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is an issue that affects a lot of athletes, and they should be concerned if they truly are a team player.\u201d<\/p>\n

As much as the current situation depresses Wagner, she has some hope.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really think there is a way to stop it or at least chip away at it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt really pains me to see athletes in the same shoes I was twenty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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