Doping Test

The turbulent times of Sun Yang, the controversial Chinese swimmer who in 2012 became his country’s first male Olympic swimming champion but ran into trouble with doping authorities, are to make the Silver Screen in a film charting tainted gold. Sun was hit with a three-month backdated suspension, one never…

Olympic swimming champion Kyle Chalmers has said widespread doping in the sport means he can't trust half of his competitors, and said he was inspired by teammate Mack Horton's stance against Sun Yang.Key points:Kyle Chalmers says he uses the knowledge his competitors are doping as motivation in racesHe said he…

Now the Chinese are turning their backs on Sun Yang: Shamed swimmer loses 360,000 followers after being slapped with an eight-year ban - and some are even apologising to Mack HortonChinese swimmer Sun Yang, 28, was banned for eight years for dopingHe tested positive for a once-banned drug and also…

Sun Yang, China's first swimmer to snatch Olympic gold, appears to be losing domestic support after he was given an eight-year ban for tampering with a drug test.Key points:Sun Yang is China's most successful swimmer, but is shedding fans on social mediaHe was found guilty of refusing to cooperate with…

Adam Peaty did not need to be diagnosed to work out what was wrong. ‘I was in a place where you don’t find any fun in anything or you don’t really see the point in anything,’ the British swimming superstar recalls.It was 18 months ago that Peaty suffered from those symptoms…

Olympic Channel’s 2019 World Championships Weeks continues next week with seven days and more than 50 hours of coverage from swimming worlds in Gwangju, South Korea.All coverage on the Olympic Channel will also stream on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app for subscribers.At worlds last summer, Caeleb Dressel became the first swimmer…

View photos(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Are relations between China and America headed toward an even deeper breach?After years of angry rhetoric on trade and, more recently, dubious claims that Covid-19 emerged in a Chinese laboratory, President Donald Trump is threatening to end bilateral relations altogether.For more articles like this, please visit us…

Water Sport 2020-05-08 20:01 Chad le Clos and Sun Yang (Getty Images) Lynn Butler - Sport24 Star South African swimmer Chad le Clos believes it's unjust for Sun Yang to still have his Olympic medals after the Chinese freestyler was recently banned for eight years.READ | Le Clos takes salary cut to…

US Vice-President says the task force may wind down by the end of the month. Also: UK overtakes Italy to have the highest number of officially recorded coronavirus deaths in Europe, and Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang tries to overturn an eight year doping ban. Read More

Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang has submitted an appeal over his eight-year doping ban to Switzerland’s highest court. An official at the Swiss Federal Tribunal confirmed that the Chinese athlete had submitted an appeal ahead of the deadline. The supreme court is the designated appeal body for decisions made in…