Tag: Sun Yang
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146 Chinese athletes nominated for CCTV Sports Awards, but not Sun Yang
Ouch, see Xinhua Double Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang was excluded from the voting for China’s top athlete despite a successful record which includes three world championships titles. Sun isn’t on a list of 146 candidates selected on Thursday to run for the prestigious CCTV Sports Awards. The organizers, China Central Television, announced that they…
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Memories of Summer in Barcelona
“We re-live the Speedo highlights from the Fina 15th World Championships held in Barcelona, Summer 2013. We love that winning feeling from Ryan Lochte, Sun Yang, Katie Ledecky, Melani Costa, Missy Franklin & Christian Sprenger”
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Controversy continues to whirl around Chinese swimming star Sun Yang
Read People Daily Despite having finished his seven-day detention for driving without a license, China’s Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang remains the center of controversy. Sun’s relationship with teammates was questioned this time as a local newspaper reported on Nov 17 that the 400m and 1,500m freestyle Olympic champion has become a supercilious athlete after…
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Olympic swimmer Sun Yang’s jail stint no piece of pie for fellow inmates
Read South China Morning Post After serving his week-long punishment for driving without a licence, Chinese Olympic swimmer Sun Yang managed to dodge a media scrum of almost 50 reporters when he was released from detention on Monday morning, Chinese media reported. Sun snuck out a side door of the Hangzhou detention centre at around…
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A not so appropriate Hyundai commercial featuring Sun Yang
They must be pissed he drove a Porsche. Or not ?
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China suspends Olympic champion Sun Yang from all competition and training
See Xinhua News via SwimmingWorld China’s double Olympic champion Sun Yang has been suspended from all competition and training, announced the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center (CSAC) on Wednesday. Sun was “suspended from all the competitions at home and abroad; suspended from the training of the national swimming team; and suspended from all the social and…
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China View: Olympic swimmer Sun Yang detained for illegal driving
“Sun Yang, a swimmer who took the gold at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, has been detained after local police found him driving without a license following a car accident.” See also CCTV
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Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang detained for seven days after driving without licence
Read for instance BBC and Inside The Games China’s Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang could face up to 15 days in detention after he was caught driving without a licence yesterday. Yang was involved in a car accident in Hangzhou on Sunday afternoon when a bus collided with his Porsche Cayenne, which he claimed he had…