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WADA says Swiss court overturns swimmer Sun’s doping ban
Lausanne | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON DEC 24, 2020 09:24 AM IST
At stake in a second CAS hearing would be Yang’s chance to compete at the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics now set for July 2021. The Swiss court ruling appears to have swung on an objection by Sun’s lawyers to the chairman of the three-judge panel, former Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini.
Banned Chinese swimmer Sun Yang lodges appeal with Swiss federal court: Report
London | By Reuters
UPDATED ON MAY 05, 2020 11:31 AM IST
Swimming World said the three-times Olympic champion’s appeal had been registered by the Swiss federal court on April 29.
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang banned for eight years for doping offence - CAS
Lausanne | By Agence France-Presse
UPDATED ON FEB 28, 2020 04:59 PM IST
The Swiss-based CAS upheld the appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against the international swimming federation (FINA) and Sun, one of China’s most recognisable athletes who had already served a doping ban in 2014.
Caeleb Dressel emerges with Michael Phelps aura after scandal-hit world swim
Gwangju, South Korea | By Agence France-Presse
UPDATED ON JUL 29, 2019 10:56 AM IST
Dressel came away from Gwangju with six gold medals and two silvers, winning all four of his individual events and obliterating Phelps’s 10-year-old 100 metres butterfly world record for good measure.
‘I’m just protecting athletes’, insists China swim star Sun
Gwangju, South Korea | By Agence France-Presse
UPDATED ON JUL 27, 2019 09:57 AM IST
After reclaiming his 400 and 200 metres freestyle world titles earlier this week, both Australia’s Mack Horton and Briton Duncan Scott staged dramatic podium protests, refusing to shake Sun’s hand, provoking a furious reaction from triple Olympic champion.
Hungarian teenager Kristof Milak crushes Michael Phelps 200m butterfly world record
Gwangju, South Korea | By Agence France-Presse
UPDATED ON JUL 24, 2019 07:06 PM IST
Hungary’s Kristof Milak shattered Michael Phelps’s 200 metres butterfly world record Wednesday as he stormed to his first world title.