Chinese swimmer Sun Yang banned for 8 years

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Great Britain's Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has led the reaction to Sun Yang's eight-year ban from the sport, saying he was disrespecting the sport and his country after a second run-in with anti-doping bodies which has now cost him his career.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport banned the Chinese star for his role in tampering with a doping sample. The decision was handed down on Friday night after an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who objected to a FINA ruling that allowed Sun to continue swimming after a vial of blood was smashed during an out-of-competition test in September 2018.

Peaty, a world record holder and Olympic gold medallist, has become a leading voice for clean sport and reform in swimming and said anyone who was found to have anti-doping issues twice was a "fool".

"For anyone that’s been banned once, potentially it’s a mistake. The odds are yeah – you could have taken any supplement or whatever," Peaty told Swimming World magazine.

"You’re looking at it twice – you’re a fool. I believe that you’re disrespecting the sport, you’re disrespecting yourself and you’re disrespecting your country."

Former English Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies asked whether FINA was fit to run the sport and said Horton and Duncan Scott, the Scotsman who backed Horton's podium protest with one of his own, were due apologies. At the time, they were met with FINA threats.

"Are FINA fit to govern swimming after this cover-up," Davies wrote on social media. "Swimmers lost medals at last years World champs that should be re issued & apologies given to Scott & Horton."

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/swimmin ... 545i9.html

Well beyond time this Chinese cheat was outed.

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Great Britain's Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has led the reaction to Sun Yang's eight-year ban from the sport, saying he was disrespecting the sport and his country after a second run-in with anti-doping bodies which has now cost him his career.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport banned the Chinese star for his role in tampering with a doping sample. The decision was handed down on Friday night after an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who objected to a FINA ruling that allowed Sun to continue swimming after a vial of blood was smashed during an out-of-competition test in September 2018.

Peaty, a world record holder and Olympic gold medallist, has become a leading voice for clean sport and reform in swimming and said anyone who was found to have anti-doping issues twice was a "fool".

"For anyone that’s been banned once, potentially it’s a mistake. The odds are yeah – you could have taken any supplement or whatever," Peaty told Swimming World magazine.

"You’re looking at it twice – you’re a fool. I believe that you’re disrespecting the sport, you’re disrespecting yourself and you’re disrespecting your country."

Former English Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies asked whether FINA was fit to run the sport and said Horton and Duncan Scott, the Scotsman who backed Horton's podium protest with one of his own, were due apologies. At the time, they were met with FINA threats.

"Are FINA fit to govern swimming after this cover-up," Davies wrote on social media. "Swimmers lost medals at last years World champs that should be re issued & apologies given to Scott & Horton."

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/swimmin ... 545i9.html

Well beyond time this Chinese cheat was outed.

Well beyond time this Chinese cheat was outed.

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