Tag: Sun Yang
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WADA will not appeal Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s ban
The World Anti-Doping agency will not appeal a three-month ban imposed against China’s controversial double Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang but will warn China over the case. WADA had considered action after Sun failed a doping test in May and was banned for three months by the Chinese federation but it was only announced in…
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Sun Yang will miss Olympics if WADA hands down doping suspension
The World Anti-Doping Agency is mulling over appealing the 22-year-old′s secret ban to the Court for Arbitration for Sport. If they take action, WADA may elect to penalize him under their new rules, which come into effect in 2015, and double the doping ban to four years, meaning he′ll miss the 2016 Rio Games. A…
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Denis Cotterell feels sorry for Sun Yang
Chinese swimming star Sun Yang’s Australian coach said he felt sorry for the double Olympic champion after it emerged he had served a doping ban, telling media Thursday the athlete was “let down”. Denis Cotterell made his comments after Australian swimming authorities barred the 1,500 metres world record-holder from training in the country’s pools in…
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CCTV News: Olympic swimmer Sun Yang failed drug test
According to China Anti-Doping Agency, the country’s most successful swimmer Sun Yang tested positive for a banned stimulant back in May. Sun has already served the three-month ban earlier this year and has been stripped of his 1500-meter freestyle gold that he won at the national championship. But many are wondering why the announcement came…
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Chinese doping officials say no cover-up of Sun ban
Chinese doping officials say they were not trying to cover up Sun Yang’s positive test and that they held back news of his three-month suspension because they did not want to make any mistakes with “the most famous athlete in China”. Sun, China’s most successful male swimmer, secretly served his ban during May and August…
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Olympic Champion Sun Yang Fails Drug Test
Chinese multi-Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang had failed a doping test and been banned for three months, China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) told Xinhua on Monday. Sun tested positive for stimulant trimetazidine in an in-competition doping test on May 17 during the national swimming championships. Sun gave up the chance to have the B…
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China Swim King Sun Yang Bashes Japan’s ‘Ugly’ National Anthem
China’s controversial swimming superstar Sun Yang has taken a potshot at rival Japan’s national anthem at the Asian Games, describing it as “ugly”. The double Olympic champion told Chinese media he had taken great pleasure in helping the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay team beat the Japanese on Wednesday. He then indulged in a spot of…
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361° Asian Games ‘Pull No Punches’ ad featuring Sun Yang
In preparation for the Asian Games starting September 19, 2014, 361 have released a tongue-in-cheek campaign featuring Olympic Swimmer Sun Yang. The Asian Games will see Sun Yang face his chief opponent, the Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan. In the series of 4 commercials, Sun Yang pokes fun at Park Tae-hwan telling him with a cheeky…
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Sun Yang still shining bright after troubled year
Sun Yang has always been different from China‘s other top swimmers, as much a maverick as a pioneer. And not just because he is the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. Or that he spent time in jail. While most of China’s best swimmers prefer to keep a low profile, Sun…