China’s triple Olympic swimming gold medallist Sun Yang was found guilty of refusing to give a doping sample and banned for eight years in an eagerly-awaited judgement from the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Friday.
The Swiss-based CAS upheld the appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency against the international swimming federation (FINA) and Sun, one of China’s most recognisable athletes who had already served a doping ban in 2014.
Sun, who was accused of refusing to provide blood and urine samples when drug testers visited his home in China in September 2018, has the right to appeal the ruling at the Swiss federal court.
(With AFP inputs)
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