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Controversy boiled up. Evans, who swam against a notoriously drug-aided East German team, is a straight-arrow in the matter of performance-enhancing substances. When the U.S. authorities refused to ban 15-year-old freestyler Jessica Foschi, who had tested positive for a steroid, Evans objected that the team was throwing away its moral right to object, for instance, to drug use by the Chinese. And then a pint-size, cheeky 15-year-old named Brooke Bennett, who reminded some people of a younger Janet Evans (and who beat Evans soundly in the 400 free in May 1995), began...
...trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, with only the first two places counting for a spot on the team, Evans came from behind to beat lanky Christina Teuscher in the 400 free. Bennett was fourth. Then, sure enough, Bennett steamed in first in the 800 free, with Evans second. (The Foschi controversy faded when Jessica failed to make the team...
Last August Foschi tested positive for a banned, performance-enhancing steroid. Under the rules of FINA, the sport's international governing body, she should be suspended for two years--eliminating her from the Olympics. However, Foschi said she did not know how the substance got into her body and that she never knowingly used illegal drugs. A panel for U.S. Swimming believed her. Last November the U.S.S. gave her two years' probation, a penalty that lets her try out for the Olympic team...
That decision, however, put U.S.S. in a hypocritical position. How could it impose probation when it has pressed for stiffer penalties on Chinese swimmers who failed recent tests? U.S.S. president Carol Zaleski appealed for a clarification. Last month the U.S.S. board of directors said that while it believed Foschi, it had to suspend her. Then FINA issued a mere "strong warning" to Australian swimmer Samantha Riley after she tested positive for a banned but non-performance-enhancing drug. Zaleski reappealed, this time to get Foschi's ban rescinded...
...Foschi is back on probation, but FINA must review the case; and Beijing is now criticizing what it sees as FINA's double standard. All that hasn't stopped Foschi. U.S.S. said last week that she would be allowed to swim in the Olympic trials, which begin this week in Indianapolis...