China’s Sun Yang set for four events in Kazan world championships

China’s controversial Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang will probably compete in four events at the world championships starting in Russia this week, a report said Monday, a year after a secret three-month doping ban.

Sun, a triple gold medalist at the 2013 Barcelona worlds, is expected to line up in the 200-meter, 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle at the Kazan World Championships, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Despite being a national sporting hero, Sun has had several brushes with authority and earned a wild reputation.

China belatedly revealed in November that Sun served a three-month doping ban before last year’s Asian Games.

The 1,500 meter world record-holder won three gold medals in Incheon in September after serving the previously unannounced ban. The failure was blamed on medicine for heart palpitations.

The 23-year-old was also banned from swimming for six months and briefly jailed for driving without a license in 2013, which was discovered after his Porsche was hit by a bus.

Read The China PostPhoto by KOREA.NET – Official page of the Republic of Korea

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