Tygart

That doesn’t mean Tygart is A-OK with an endeavor that encourages the use of PEDs and the resulting tainted accomplishments.

“As we have repeatedly said, for all of the obvious reasons, the Enhanced Games or any other open competition is a bad idea,” Tygart said in comments emailed to Agence France-Presse.

Tygart was not mollified, saying: “China seemingly has the playbook to compete under a different set of rules tilting the field in their favor.”

Tygart kept up the heat, saying: “WADA is just a sport lapdog and clean athletes have little chance.”

But Usada chief executive Travis Tygart said Wada and Chinada had "swept these positives under the carpet".