WATCH: Olympians Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt testify on anti-doping measures ahead of Paris Games

One month before the Summer Games in Paris, Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt will appear before a House committee Tuesday night to discuss alleged problems with the global anti-doping system and ways to make competition fairer.

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“The World Anti-Doping Agency, the governing body responsible for enforcing fair standards, has a questionable track record of fulfilling that mission,” Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Morgan Griffith, R-Va., wrote in announcing the hearing. Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, is also expected to testify. Neither Phelps, the winningest Olympian of all time, or Schmitt, who has 10 medals, will be competing in Paris.

“As Olympians, we know the fans watching the Games don’t see the full picture,” former U.S. swimmer Schmitt wrote in her written testimony to the committee. “They don’t see the forms we fill out to indicate our whereabouts for drug testing at all times, or the fact that we have to pull our shorts below our knees and our shirts up to our chests while someone bends over and watches the pee come out. They don’t know about avoiding every topical cream and oral medication because we don’t know what’s in it —even a cold medicine, just in case it causes a positive test.”

Schmitt added that the intense scrutiny and dedication to anti-doping measures “only matters if everyone, including the global regulator, WADA, is equally committed.”

In 2021, nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned drug trimetazidine. The athletes were cleared by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and two went on to win gold medals in Tokyo. Eleven of the same Chinese competitors are now slated for the Paris Olympic team next month.

The president of WADA, Witold Banka, was also invited to testify Tuesday.

This story is developing and will be updated.