Sun innocent of tampering with blood samples: CSA
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China’s world and Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang has not broken anti-doping rules, the Chinese Swimming Association said yesterday, rejecting allegations in a British newspaper that he tampered with a blood sample.
The Sunday Times reported an alleged dispute between doping testers and the swimmer last year which, according to the newspaper, had resulted in damage to a sample.
The CSA said an investigation by world swimming body FINA had found the swimmer committed no anti-doping rule violation.
The CSA said Sun had rejected an out-of-competition doping test at his home in China on September 4 last year over what the athlete said was a lack of proof of identification by the testers.
“After FINA called up an investigation of the issue, CSA ordered Sun Yang to fully cooperate with FINA and truly report every detail of the affair,” the CSA said in a statement to Xinhua news agency.
“According to the final decision of the FINA Doping Panel, FINA confirms the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation.”
The China Swimming Association “has zero tolerance towards doping”, it said. “The association will continue to strengthen anti-doping work and strictly abide by anti-doping regulations.”
FINA could not be immediately reached for comment.
Sun, a triple Olympic gold medalist and world record holder, was banned in 2014 for three months after testing positive for the banned stimulant trimetazidine during the Chinese national championships.
His lawyer Zhang Qihuai has threatened legal action, saying the newspaper reported with “a malign intention” which “severely damaged Sun Yang’s reputation and violated his privacy.”
“We reserve the right to file a lawsuit against the relevant international media which reported the incident,” Zhang said in a statement to Xinhua.
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