WARSAW:

Just over a year after an internal investigation cleared the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of pro-China bias, senior officials at the organisation decried a "frustrating" increase in political interference.

"When I started, about 20% of my work was politics," Gunter Younger, director of Intelligence and Investigations at WADA, told AFP.

Now, he claims 80% of his work has become political.

"It's quite frustrating," he adds.

"We spend so much time on politics instead of doing what we are supposed to do."

However, Younger warned: "We are not afraid of any country in the world."

His remarks come just over a year after the agency was rocked by a scandal involving 23 Chinese swimmers, who were cleared of doping after testing positive for the same banned heart drug in 2021.

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