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Sun Yang recalls bizarre doping test
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Fifteen months after a nightmarish evening that led to a series of court cases against him, China鈥檚 Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang still has difficulty processing that day鈥檚 events.
鈥淓verything that happened on the night of September 4, 2018, looked bizarre,鈥 recalled Sun after his morning training session in Beijing yesterday. 鈥淭he doping officials didn鈥檛 have sufficient credentials, one official had never received any training in doping control, and they agreed not to take away my samples because they lacked the proper credentials.鈥
鈥淭he funny thing is that they brought with them a foam box like one for storing seafood, instead of a standard collection box,鈥 added the three-time Olympic champion.
Sun, who was tested by Chinese anti-doping officials on Tuesday night, his 25th doping check of the year, said the Chinese officials 鈥減erformed their duty exactly as required by the World Anti-Doping Agency code and used standard testing equipment.鈥
The 28-year-old swimmer has been tested nearly 200 times since 2012, including 28 times in 2017 and 31 in 2018.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday that its verdict over the case brought by WADA against Sun is not expected before January 2020. This is in part down to the time taken to prepare a written transcript of a lengthy public hearing on November 15, which was marred by poor interpretation.
Sun refused to complete a doping test conducted by the international testing company IDTM on September 4, 2018, after discovering that the doping control officer and her assistants lacked sufficient authorization and credentials. The three testers signed an agreement with Sun on September 5 stating that the test was 鈥渋ncomplete鈥 and that they would not take away the swimmer鈥檚 samples.
Sun鈥檚 case was later heard by swimming鈥檚 world governing body FINA, which decided on January 2019 that the swimmer was not guilty of anti-doping rule violations. WADA disagreed and appealed the decision, and asked the Switzerland-based CAS to ban Sun for between two and eight years.
At Sun鈥檚 request, last month鈥檚 hearing in Montreux, Switzerland, which dragged on for nearly 11 hours and was attended by around 200 people, was only the second public hearing in the history of CAS.
Sun said that he wanted the hearing to be made public to let the world know what happened on September 4, 2018, and to prove his innocence, and also called on international sporting organizations to protect the basic rights of athletes.
The November 15 courtroom debate was marred by poor interpretation of Sun鈥檚 testimony and those of his witnesses. Lawyers of both parties had to constantly repeat their questions and even interrupt the witnesses鈥 testimonies as a result of incomplete and inaccurate interpretation between Chinese and English.
In an earlier interview, Sun said he couldn鈥檛 trust testers without sufficient documentation proving who they were.
鈥淚 refused to take a urine test in front of a man who wasn鈥檛 a real tester,鈥 Sun recalled. 鈥淲hen I take a urine test, I have to roll up my sleeves up to the elbows and have my pants down to my knees. I can show my body to doctors or official testers. How can I urinate in front of a total stranger who isn鈥檛 a tester or doctor?鈥
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