Tag: Sun Yang

  • Sun needs time to be back to top, says coach Zhang

    Sun needs time to be back to top, says coach Zhang

    Read Xinhuanet After 200m free, Sun shouted and punched in the air, releasing his pressure from the public since the non-license driving incident. “I’m satisfied with today’s performance. It’s an easy win,” Sun said after setting the world’s fifth best of this year in 200m free. Sun is expected to meet with arch rival Park…

  • Sun Yang’s return sets up potential legendary race

    Sun Yang’s return sets up potential legendary race

    Read NBC Olympic Talk Comparing early season times can be dangerous, but note that Lochte won the 200m free at the Mesa Grand Prix in 1:49.48 on April 25. Lochte finished fourth in the 200m free at the 2012 Olympics and 2013 World Championships and is currently the top rival to Sun as the world’s best…

  • Sun Yang has ban lifted, splits with long-time coach

    Sun Yang has ban lifted, splits with long-time coach

    Read People Daily Multi-Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang had a competition and endorsement ban lifted on Thursday. The same day, he and his long-time coach Zhu Zhigen parted ways. Sun had been banned from training, competition and commercial events by Zhejiang College of Sports, where he takes training as a student, after he was detained…

  • CCTV: Sun Yang back with the national team

    CCTV: Sun Yang back with the national team

    See CCTV China’s most famous swimming star Sun Yang is once again training with the national. The athlete was reprimanded by State General Administration of Sports, after he was caught driving without a license last November. SunYang’s fortunes appear to be improving after a troublesome past five months, as the Chinese swimming federation lifted a…

  • China’s swimming national team lifts Sun Yang’s ban

    China’s swimming national team lifts Sun Yang’s ban

    Read People Daily The Chinese swimming national team lifted the ban on Olympic champion Sun Yang’s on Wednesday. Sun, the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold with his victories in the 400 and 1,500-meter freestyle at the London Games, was suspended from training and competing indefinitely last November after he was given…

  • Sun Yang resumes training

    Read ChinaDaily Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang arrived at a natatorium in Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan in southwest China, on Thursday afternoon to resume altitude training on the plateau. Sun arrived at Kunming Tianyi sports center with members of the Zhejiang provincial swimming team at around 4 p.m. and began training. Sun has…

  • Sun Yang seeks redemption

    Sun Yang seeks redemption

    Read via ShanghaiDaily Sun Yang received a gift for his 22nd birthday from Swimming World Magazine on December 1 – he was elected as the Male World Swimmer of Year 2013. Instead of celebrating, he apologized – for an eventful year that saw him breaking up with his coach, missing training and caught driving without…

  • China’s swim star Sun Yang treading fine line in the eyes of the public

    Read Global Times China can’t decide whether swimming star Sun Yang is in the doghouse or not. Sun spent a week in detention last month after ­being caught driving without a ­license. He didn’t make many friends on the inside after insisting on a vegetarian diet to avoid the risk of eating contaminated meat: Prison…

  • Sun Yang may be back to training soon, says top swimming official

    Read Xinhua China’s Olympic champion Sun Yang, who has been suspended indefinitely following a recent detention for driving without a licence, could return to national team training “soon”, said a top swimming official. “We need to watch Sun Yang for a period of time. If he behaves well, it may not take a long time…