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Sun Yang, the Chinese swimmer banned from sport for eight years from February 28, has had an invitation to join the Olympic swimming team for Tokyo 2021 training withdrawn by the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) after we alerted World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to the potential breach of rules. Swi...

Chinese Swimming Association Publishes Paris Qualification Criteria, Ruling out Sun Yang Return The Chinese Swimming Association on Friday announced its selection criteria for the Paris Olympics, announcing its trials meet for April. That prevents a return for Sun Yang, who isn’t eligible to return ...

Sun Yang Appeal Unlikely To Succeed, Says FINA Legal Chair As China Debates Swimmer's Continued Monthly Wage Packet A top FINA legal eagle has concluded that it is "very hard to see [Sun Yang] succeeding" in his appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) against an eight-year suspension for tamperi....

The eight-year ban handed down to three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for tampering with a test sample in 2018 has prompted the swimmer's mother to launch an unprecedented attack on Chinese swimming authorities. In a social network post subsequently d...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The International Swimming League finalized its schedule for the bubble, which begins this coming weekend in Budapest as the swimmers have descended on Margaret Island for the second season of the league. The league has also finalized its broadcast deal with ...

The Sun Yang Global Support Association has announced its intention to close down with a wide-ranging apology to "the Chinese people and all athletes" and "to all those who have been threatened and cursed, to all the people who have been misled and deceived, and to the party and the country”. The gr...

BEJING, CHINA - The Chinese Swimming Association plans more drug tests and tougher sanctions to strengthen control over doping, swimming officials said. The organization will increase drug tests to 600 and impose a life ban against first-time steroid offenders, the Xinhua News Agency reported in a s...

BEIJING, CHINA - Conflicting domestic schedules prompted China to pull 15 swimmers from the coming Pan Pacific Championships, state media said overnight, countering accusations that drug use was to blame. All but five of China's original team of 20 swimmers "were asked by their provincial associatio...

Double Olympic medallist James Guy was lost for words before shock turned into confusion and questions after hearing that Sun Yang had been invited by the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) to join the Olympic swimming team for Tokyo 2021 training. Swimming World had learned of an official notice sh...

September’s Chinese National Swimming Championships in Qingdao included an unexpected and controversial wrinkle, with non-swimming physical fitness tests added as part of qualification for finals. But a Chinese official has gone on record saying such tests won’t factor into qualification for the Tok...

Sun Yang's 2014 Doping Positive Comes Back Into View As Chinada's Datelines For Its Chinese Version Of The WADA Code Raise Questions   Sun Yang, the Chinese swimmer slapped with an eight-year-ban last month after a row with anti-doping testers in 2018, tested positive for a banned substance in 2014 ...

After a report by The Sunday Times, alleging Chinese Olympic gold medalist Sun Yang could face a lifetime ban, the Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) said Sunday Sun Yang had no wrongdoings and did not violate anti-doping rules when he took an out-of-competition urine test last September, according ...

This week one of the premier Division I NCAA teams received a suspension after an investigation revealed multiple recruiting violations from former coaches. Catch up on that story, more developments in the latest Sun Yang drama, in the week that was! The Week That Was #5 - Nathan Adrian Undergoes Su...

SHANGHAI, CHINA - Guo Qinglong, president of the Chinese Swimming Association, defended world records set by swimmers at the Chinese National Games on Sunday, hours after Australian coach Don Talbot said he had no doubt the Chinese were using drugs. Guo called suggestions of drug use a "fabricated r...