Cheating Chinky Hangs up his Budgies for 8 years

Chinese Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang has been banned from swimming for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules, but the swimmer has indicated he will appeal the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) ruling.

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Key points:

Sun has been banned from swimming until February 2028 for refusing to cooperate with sample collectors
The ban means Sun will be unable to defend his 200-metre freestyle title at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
Sun was the first Chinese swimmer to win Olympic gold

The CAS 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 of how a security guard instructed by Sun's mother used a hammer to smash the casing around a vial of Sun's blood.

FINA's doping panel had cleared Sun of any wrongdoing in the incident but the World Anti Doping Authority (WADA) appealed that decision.

The swimmer had asked CAS for a public trial.

A 10-hour hearing broadcast on the court's website was hampered by severe translation issues between Chinese and English.

The CAS panel's verdict was delayed until all parties got a verified translation.

Sun responded to CAS's decision by saying he would "definitely" appeal the ruling.
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"This is unfair. I firmly believe in my innocence," the 28-year-old Sun was quoted as telling China's official Xinhua News Agency.

"I will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth."

Jack Anderson from the Melbourne Law School said Sun's last avenue of appeal was to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

"It's very difficult to succeed there. There are very narrow procedural grounds," Professor Anderson told The World.

"His main ground throughout all of this is with anti-doping policy [there is] strict liability against the athletes, but it should equally be strict liability against the testers and the administrators. And he feels that that principle has not been upheld."

Sun, the first Chinese swimmer to win Olympic gold, has long been a polarising figure in the pool.

The Chinese swimmer came to the attention of Australians after Mack Horton led a protest against Sun at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

Horton and Scottish swimmer Duncan Scott refused to stand with Sun on medal podiums at the 2019 FINA World Championships in South Korea.
Ban puts swimming career in doubt

The long ban almost certainly spells the end of Sun's career.

Now banned until February 2028, Sun cannot defend his 200-metre freestyle title in Tokyo.

WADA went to CAS after a FINA tribunal only warned Sun.

The first ruling was that anti-doping protocol was not followed, making the samples invalid, and cited doubts about credentials shown to him by the sample collection team.

WADA requested a ban of between two and eight years for a second doping conviction.

Sun served a three-month ban in 2014 imposed by Chinese authorities after testing positive for a stimulant that was banned at the time.

The ban was not announced until after it ended and he never missed a major event.

That first case led to criticism of FINA for appearing to protect one of the sport's biggest stars in a key market.
Calls for medals to be reissued

British Olympic silver medallist Sharron Davies questioned whether FINA was "fit to govern swimming after this cover-up" and said Horton, as well as Scott, deserved apologies.

"Swimmers lost medals at last years' World champs that should be re-issued & apologies given to Scott and Horton," the 1978 Commonwealth Games gold medallist tweeted.

WADA said it welcomed the CAS ruling.

"WADA decided to appeal the original FINA ruling having carefully reviewed it and having concluded that there were a number of points that seemed to be incorrect under the [doping] code," WADA director-general Olivier Niggli said.

"Today's CAS ruling confirms those concerns and is a significant result. We will now need to take time to review the decision in full."

https://www.abc. net.au/news/2020-02-28/sun-yang-banned-from-swimming-for-eight-years/12012900

He's always been a twat.

Ban him for life and strip him of any medals and give them to the people that deserve them.

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He's always been a twat.

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However, being a twat does not always mean one is guilty. Though, apparently he is.

China's disgraced swimmer Sun Yang is starting to lose support as fans apologise to Mack Horton

Sun Yang, China's first swimmer to snatch Olympic gold, appears to be losing domestic support after he was given an eight-year ban for tampering with a drug test.
Key points:

Sun Yang is China's most successful swimmer, but is shedding fans on social media
He was found guilty of refusing to cooperate with drug sample collectors
Australian Mack Horton, who blew the whistle about Sun, is now receiving apologies in Chinese

At the same time, some supporters of China's most-successful swimmer are changing their tune in online apologies to his arch-rival, Australian swimmer Mack Horton.

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Horton, an Olympic gold medallist, made headlines last year when he refused to stand on a podium next to Sun.
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The Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) handed down the sentence against Sun in February, after an investigation found the three-time Olympic champion guilty of refusing to cooperate with sample collectors during a visit to his home in September 2018.

While Sun lodged an appeal against the ban on April 29 with Switzerland's highest court, the swimmer is beginning to see his once-fervent domestic support wane.

The South China Morning Post and local media reported that Sun's official page on the Chinese platform Weibo has shed about 360,000 followers over the past two months.

The embattled athlete — whose individual record is second only to that of Michael Phelps — still boasts some 33 million followers, but many Chinese social media users have piled on.

"You have lied to Chinese people for so many years," commented one Weibo user under Sun's latest post.

Another user said under the same post: "If Sun Yang is wrong, he must admit his wrongdoing and take responsibility for all the consequences, but there is currently no proof of him taking [banned] drugs."
Chinese users purportedly apologise to Australia's Horton
Australian swimmer Mack Horton (left) looks elsewhere while Sun Yang and Gabriele Detti hold up their world championship medals.
Mack Horton, left, staged a podium protest against Sun at last year's FINA World Championships.(AP: Lee Jin-man)

Sun is the first man in swimming history to clinch Olympic and world championship gold medals at every freestyle distance between 200 metres and 1,500 metres, but questions about his record have been significantly amplified by Horton.

Horton labelled Sun a "drug cheat" at the Rio Games in 2016, referring to the Chinese athlete's 2014 doping charge for a drug that has since been taken off the banned list.

In late April, Horton's father, Andrew, told the Weekend Australian Magazine that their home was broken into a week after Mack's comments.

He also said attacks on his business's website stopped once traffic was stopped from China.

But it was three years later, at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, where tensions between two swimmers reached fever pitch: Horton refused to shake hands or share the podium with Sun, who had won gold in the 400-metre freestyle.
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Following Horton's protest, Sun claimed the Australian had "disrespected China".

At the time, Sun claimed that Horton had "disrespected China" with his protests, which sparked a torrent of abuse toward the Australian on Western and Chinese social media, in addition to threats made to Horton's family in Melbourne.

They told the Weekend Australian their family home in Melbourne's east had their plants and trees poisoned, while a "bucketload" of centimetre-thick glass shards were found in their backyard pool.

But in recent weeks, a trickle of comments of apology have appeared under Horton's Instagram posts. Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are banned in China, however, they can be reached by some virtual private networks, VPNs.

One comment from a week ago read, "Apologies! Add oil" — a phrase used to express support — under an Instagram post from Horton where the Olympian is pictured shirtless.

Another, from March, read: "As a Chinese, on behalf myself, I want to say sorry to you. Hope you can forgive Chinese for what we had done to you. You are a man who is brave [and] strong. You truly are a warrior."

https://www.abc. net.au/news/2020-05-19/sun-yang-ban-drop-in-chinese-support-mack-horton-apology/12258626

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Though, apparently he is.

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Not much of "apparently', though

Sun Yang has eight-year doping ban referred back to Court of Arbitration for Sport after appeal

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has had his eight-year ban for doping violations referred back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after an appeal to a Swiss court, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said in a statement.

Key points:

• Sun Yang was banned for eight years after being found guilty of wrongdoing during a 2018 test
• The case will be re-heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport Panel chaired by a different president
• Sun was the first male Chinese swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal

Sun was banned for eight years by CAS in February after it accepted an appeal from WADA against a decision by swimming body FINA to clear Sun of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 test.

Sun appealed that decision and WADA said in Wednesday's statement that it had been informed the Swiss Federal Tribunal had upheld a challenge against the chair of the CAS Panel but had not made any comment on the substance of the case.

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Banned swimmer Sun Yang under investigation as new photo exposes alleged secret



Controversial swimmer Sun Yang could miss out on the next Olympics after all amid reports he was photographed violating the terms of his doping ban.
The 30-year-old’s eight-year suspension was cut to four years and three months earlier this year and is due to expire just two months before Paris 2024.
But that timeline could now face a reset, with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) looking into fresh allegations against the Chinese athlete.

The Times newspaper reported Sun was photographed in a ‘performance sport facility’ funded by the Chinese government.
Athletes banned for doping are prohibited from training with their teams or, as faced by Sun and Australian swimmer Shayna Jack during her ban, official facilities.
The Times featured what appeared to be a post-swim selfie shared by Sun on a social media platform.
WADA is taking the allegations “very seriously”, spokesman James Fitzgerald told AFP.
“We are looking into the matter and, as part of that, we will follow up with the relevant entities, including the international swimming federation (FINA), to gather more information and to be in a position to determine whether the swimmer has breached the terms of his suspension, as per the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) of 22 June 2021,” he said.

https://images.7news.com.au/publicat...y=sevennews_v2Sun Yang pictured at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Credit: AAPFINA quickly took action.
“We are contacting the Chinese authorities to seek explanation and will reiterate that it is imperative that any banned athlete complies with the WADA Code and the conditions of their ineligibility,” a spokesperson told The Times.

Sun Yang under investigation: WADA probes new photo exposing banned swimmer’s alleged secret training sessions | 7NEWS
Sun had hoped his eight-year ban would be struck out by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in June to allow for a shot at this year’s Tokyo Olympics, which began in July.
He has instead vowed to “persist” with his career and return at the Paris Olympics as a 32-year-old.
“Actually my body is in great physical condition,” Sun was quoted as saying in an interview with state-owned Chinese online outlet The Paper.
The three-time Olympic gold medallist said he wanted to stay in the sport, possibly as a coach for young athletes, if he did not return competitively.

https://images.7news.com.au/publicat...y=sevennews_v2Sun Yang is setting his sights on the Paris Olympic Games after having a doping ban reduced. Credit: EPA“Difficulties will only help me grow and make me stronger,” he said.
The freestyle champion was banned after he and members of his entourage were found to have smashed vials containing blood samples taken at an out-of-competition test in September 2018.
A highly controversial figure in swimming and one of China’s most celebrated athletes, Sun has constantly maintained his innocence while questioning the credentials and identity of the testers.
Last December, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court upheld Sun’s challenge against the CAS panel on the grounds that one judge had exhibited possible bias against Chinese people.

Sun Yang under investigation: WADA probes new photo exposing banned swimmer’s alleged secret training sessions | 7NEWS

Why do some countries believe the rules don't apply to them? Remember the big mouth this fuckwit had initially . . .

So Aussies caught cheating again.:rolleyes:

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Sun has been banned from swimming until February 2028

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That's pretty harsh. :bigeyes:


What if he sees someone drowning in a river. Or his boat sinks.

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So Aussies caught cheating again.

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Shane Warne: "I thought they were weight loss pills, I had no idea they would be sports enhancing".


Shit-banned for a year. :yup:


Can't trust 'em.

Ya just can't trust 'em.