WADA drops lawsuit against USADA but still believes it would have won
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The World Anti-Doping Agency has dropped a lawsuit and an ethics case it filed against critics in the United States who disagreed with its handling of a doping case involving Chinese swimmers .
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday that a defamation lawsuit filed in Swiss court against the American drug-fighting agency along with an ethics complaint against former U.S. drug czar Rahul Gupta had both been withdrawn.
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