Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang faces life-time ban after alleged abuse of anti-drug testers, reports

Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang faces a lifetime ban from swimming after a bizarre clash with anti-doping testers ended in the destruction of a sealed vial containing a blood sample.

According to The Times, the Chinese swimmer had a run-in with testers from IDTM (organisation responsible for conducting out-of-competition dope tests around the world), which resulted in his security guard using a hammer to smash a sealed vial containing the swimmer’s blood.

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