Chinese Swimmer Sun Yang Receives 8 Year Ban By CAS Ending His Career Before Tokyo Olympics #SunYang

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang was banned for eight years on Friday for breaking anti-doping rules and will miss the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Court of Arbitration for Sport found the three-time Olympic champion guilty of refusing to cooperate with sample collectors during a visit to his home in September 2018 that turned confrontational. In a rare hearing in open court in November, evidence was presented detailing the astonishing claim that a security guard, instructed by Sun’s mother, used a hammer to smash the casing around a vial of his blood. The swimmer had asked CAS for a public trial. A 10-hour hearing broadcast on the court’s website showed Sun to be evasive at times under questioning that was hampered by severe translation issues between Chinese and English. The CAS panel’s verdict was delayed until all parties got a verified translation.