China's Anti-Doping Agency Says Beijing Lab Cleared To Resume Testing

China's anti-doping agency said on Tuesday that the World Anti-doping Agency "approved the resumption of testing operations at a Beijing laboratory amid allegations of drug use by some of the country's swimmers," according to Michael Martina of REUTERS. WADA "had suspended the accreditation of Beijing's national anti-doping laboratory in April, weeks after launching a probe into drugs allegations in Chinese swimming." The center said that "it had received a notice from WADA confirming it had met the agency's technical requirements, but did not elaborate." Following WADA's suspension of the agency, state news agency Xinhua had quoted the laboratory as saying that false negative results were caused by "technical errors" because it had yet to update testing methods (REUTERS, 8/16).