Chinese swimming superstar Sun Yang has been banned for more than four years – despite asking lawyers who had successfully represented Russian athletes in previous Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearings to represent him.
Three-time Olympic champion Sun’s hopes of defending his 200m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games next month have been shattered after a retrial at the court, centering on a failed attempt by testers to take blood and urine during an unannounced visit to his home in China in September 2018.
Judges found Sun to have “acted recklessly”…
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