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Sun Yang Verdict: WADA Vs Sun Yang & FINA at the Court of Arbitration for Sport Sun Yang 's swimming career is over. In a damning judgment, a panel of three senior judges at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) handed the Chinese Olympic champion an eight-year ban. The penalty is not backdated a...

Sun Yang must pay the World Anti-Doping Agency's legal costs that were run up defending the Chinese swimmer's appeal against an eight-year ban. The three-time Olympic champion was handed the suspension when the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld WADA's appeal in March 2020 following the manipulat...

Sun Yang will not defend his 200 freestyle title at the Tokyo Olympics after he was banned for four years and three months after a retrial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Link to CAS verdict Link to WADA statement Adam Peaty Welcomes Tokyo Absence The Chinese swimmer had been handed an eight-...

By MICHAEL EVANS and MICHAEL COWLEY Sydney Morning Herald SYDNEY, May 3. AUSTRALIAN swimmers who wear the new body suits at this month's Australian Olympic Trials risk losing their places on the Olympic team, the president of the Australian Olympic Committee, Mr John Coates, warned yesterday. Co...

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...

Sun Yang CAS Anti-Doping Hearing Sun Yang's Court of Arbitration (CAS) hearing will be held in Lausanne on November 15, the swimmer's Chinese lawyer Zhang Qihuai has announced. CAS has yet to add the hearing date to its published list of official hearings, its last statement confirming that a hearin...

The British Olympic Association (BOA) plans to drop its appeal of the Olympic decision that denied Nick Gillingham a bronze medal. Gillingham finished fourth behind Russia's Andrei Korneyev in the 200-meter breaststroke in Atlanta, and was promoted to third by the International Olympic Committee (IO...

Banned From Tokyo Games, China's Sun Yang Targeting 2024 Olympics in Paris There will be no Olympic-medal chases for Chinese star Sun Yang at next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, due to the Court of Arbitration for Sport handing down a four-year doping ban against the freestyler earlier this week. B...

In May of 2016, FINA sentenced Canada's William Brothers with a four year suspension from the sport of swimming for evading a drug test. It was cited in their original press release that the circumstance of the attempted drug test in August 2015 was in violation of FINA D.C. Rule 2.3 - evading, refu...

Tamas Kenderesi Loses Appeal As CAS Confirms Four-Year Ban Tamas Kenderesi must serve his four-year suspension after the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed his appeal against the ban imposed by the Hungarian Anti-Doping Agency (HUNADO). The publication of the decision follo...

This week's ZUMO Performance of the Week goes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for its decision in suspending Chinese freestyler Sun Yang for his role in tampering with a doping sample in September 2018. In a damning judgment, a panel of three senior judges at the Court of Arbitration for Spor...

Russian athletes may yet compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games under their flag and in full national kit unimpeded by a four-year sanction from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), depending on the pace of an appeal process. Some swim fans expressed their surprise that the Russian flag and Russian...

COLORADO SPRINGS, June 22. USA Swimming's Board of Directors voted 16-3 in a conference call this afternoon to ban the use of the new body suits at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, to be held August 9-16 in Indianapolis. The decision, which reversed the recommendation of the body's Steering...

May 8. THE Board of Directors of USA Swimming, meeting yesterday in Bartlesville, Okla., approved the use of the controversial new "body suits" at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, to be held in Indianapolis, August 9-16. The new Speedo "fast-skin" suits--along with similar body suits by Adidas, Are...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - An arbitration panel ended its hearing into Olympic champion Michelle De Bruin's appeal of a four-year drug-related suspension. Officials with the the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said it might be days before a ruling on the case will be issued. The panel focused on w...

London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Andrey Grechin is set to return to the pool, according to Russian news agency TASS. Grechin swam the lead-off as the Russian 4x100 free quartet came third at the Aquatics Centre behind gold medallists France - led home by Yannick Agnel in 46.74 - and a United Sta...

The leadership of FINA, the international swimming federation, sought to protect China's Sun Yang from being banned from the sport in a doping case by backing efforts to have lead counsel for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) removed from the case, according to a Swiss Supreme Court document. A ve...

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...

Earlier this morning, it was reported that U.S. National Team member Madisyn Cox has been handed a two year doping suspension by FINA. The reason for suspension was listed as Trimetazidine, which is listed as a Class 4.5.4 (hormones and metabolites) according to WADA's prohibited list. Swimming Worl...

JAPAN'S top female freestyler, Suzu Chiba, who was not named to her country's 2000 Olympic Team for the Sydney Games, has decided to retire, according to an official of the Japanese Amateur Swimming Federation (JASF). "We have been notified that she will retire," the official said. He did no...