Australia's head swim coach says it's a waste of energy to get distracted by the doping controversy engulfing Chinese swimming.
Rohan Taylor says Australian swimmers have to trust the world anti-doping system amid fresh reports of further positive tests among China's swimmers.
An independent investigation has been launched into the World Anti-Doping Agency's handling of the case of 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive to a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
The swimmers were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Games held in 2021 after WADA accepted Chinese findings that the athletes tested positive because of a contamination in a kitchen at a team hotel.
The New York Times is now reporting three of the 23 swimmers had also tested positive to the banned substance clenbuterol in separate cases in 2016 and 2017.
Chinese authorities argued the three athletes had ingested the substance inadvertently through contaminated meat, and no disciplinary action was taken.
WADA said in a statement the three athletes were found to have levels of clenbuterol that were between "six and 50 times lower" than the minimum reporting level currently used by the agency.
Taylor said Swimming Australia's athletes and coaches "can only control what we can control".
"So the narrative is quite clear, that's all we can do," he said on Saturday.
"We have to trust that WADA and World Aquatics are going to continue to investigate, WADA particularly.
"We will continue to monitor that.
"But as far as it's distracting us in competition, again, it's not a controllable thing for us.
"And if it were to be a distraction, it's probably a waste of energy."
Among the three Chinese swimmers named in the fresh New York Times report is Qin Haiyang.
At last year's world championships, he won 200m breaststroke gold by breaking the world record of Australia's Zac Stubblety-Cook, who finished second in the medal race.
Asked if Australia's swimmers were fed up with the issue, Taylor said: "You would have to ask them, that's something I don't know.
"I do know that the conversations that I have with the team and will have with the team are about (how to) control what we can control.
"If they have their own personal opinion, I've got no problems with that, they can express it themselves.
"We are going in and competing. If somebody's not doing the right thing we hope the system catches them.
"And that's basically how we work because our guys get tested all the time too, so we're in the same boat."
