Published: February 29, 2020
Australian rival who refused to share podium with Chinese swimming star says verdict is ‘a statement to the world’
As China’s top swimmer Sun Yang was handed an eight-year ban for a dope test violation, his Australian rival, who once called him a “drug cheat”, said his focus has always been about “clean sport”.
Mack Horton weighed in as Sun Yang vowed to appeal the ban from the court of arbitration for sport (CAS), which said the eight-year ban was imposed because the reigning world and Olympic 200m freestyle champion already had an earlier anti-doping rule violation against him from 2014.
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