“Pride of China” Sun Yang is “a victim of political posturing” and did not break doping rules, his lawyer said, after a ban of more than four years put the swimming star out of the Tokyo Olympics.
The three-time Olympic champion’s career was in tatters on Tuesday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s suspension for refusing to give a sample to doping inspectors.
At the end of a long-running and controversial case, the Lausanne-based court reduced its original ban of eight years after Sun, 29, appealed to Switzerland’s federal supreme court over alleged bias.