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Mack Horton<\/strong> was greeted to the dining hall at the Athletes’ Village last night to resounding round off applause from fellow athletes from around the world after he refused to stand on the medals podium next to Chinese controversy<\/a> Sun Yang<\/strong> after the Australian Olympic champion finished the 400m freestyle final as the first man home with a clean record – for silver.<\/p>\n

This morning on the second day of racing at the World Swimming Championships<\/a> in Gwangju<\/strong>, Horton was buoyed by waves of continued support from athletes and coaches around the world after calls for him to face “a hefty penalty” for his silent protest against Sun’s presence, pending a Court of Arbitration hearing into a controversial out-of-competition test carried out near the Chinese swimmer’s home in Zhejiang Province last September.<\/p>\n

Australian coaching guru Bill Sweetenham<\/strong><\/a> called on Australians “to support Mack Horton on his stance:”, his “great moral fibre” and “outstanding standards”, while Head Coach to Australia, Jacco Verhaeren<\/strong><\/a>, led a Dolphins chorus when he said: “No-one actually knew (he was going to protest in the way he did).<\/p>\n

“That was his idea to do that. Let’s put it this way: I understand him, very much so. He has been very strong and vocal about this in the past and you can only respect him for what he does win that score.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After a terrific start to the World Championships here at the Nambu pool here in Gwangju yesterday, the Dolphins had “to stay focussed and not to pay too much attention to what Mack did”, said the Dutchman and former mentor to Pieter Van den Hoogenband. There would be no silencing or stopping Horton, however.<\/p>\n

“He stands for what he stands for and no-one can take that away from him. No-one should. As a team, we move on: we have 7 days of racing ahead,” said Verhaeren.<\/p>\n

Not all Down Under agreed with Horton’s stance, however, Richard Ings, former boss at the Australian anti-doping agency, ASADA, tweeted that while he was “no fan” of Sun’s, he felt Horton should \u201cshould attract a hefty penalty” for his action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sun Yang – Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant<\/p><\/div>\n

Sun was a regular training visitor Down Under until 2014 but caused a change of rules in Australia after he tested positive for a banned substance that year: no athlete who falls foul of the WADA Code’s anti-doping rules is allowed to train at Australian pools funded by the public purse.\u00a0Sun told Xinhua in Gwangju:<\/p>\n

“Not everyone likes me. I don’t care about it. It is also OK if you don’t respect me personally, but during the victory ceremony, which is the most important event, we all represent our countries, you should stand on the podium, and show your respect to my country China and your country Australia and to the audience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Horton was roundly clobbered by Chinese fans on social media and courted criticism from some quarters Down Under, then Ings attracted the opprobrium of athletes and coaches in Australia and from the Dolphins in Gwangju.<\/p>\n

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Bill Sweetenham – Photo Courtesy: Toby Melville<\/p><\/div>\n

Sweetenham continued a long Australian tradition of speaking up for clean sport and Fair Play when he called on all Australians to support Horton and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with him.<\/p>\n

Horton’s protest had been “silent and respectful”, says Sweetenham, telling journalist Ian Hanson:<\/p>\n

“I ask you to support Mack Horton on his stance…we are looking at a young man of great moral fibre who gives his all to his sport and sets outstanding standards. Mack should be praised and protected against any detractors. He is is not the one who has committed drug offences. Mack represents all that is great in sport and life. He has character and inner strength that only some possess…for mine he is a sporting general…we must continue to support clean and moral athletes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Germany team spokesman, on behalf of all German swimmers, paid plaudits to Horton when he said:<\/p>\n

“I’m happy that finally someone has sent a strong message. That he (Sun) is swimming here is a joke for all clean athletes. For anyone who stands up for clean sport, it’s a slap in the face. I hope … that the signal is strong enough for the FINA to realise that should never happen on this stage again. I find it depressing just to think about it: it east at the whole team and we’re all very happy to see that a line was drawn (by Horton).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Outspoken American clean-sport advocate and Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Lilly King<\/strong><\/a> took a stand Wirth Horton at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Both objected to the presence of swimmers, such as Sun and Russian Yuliya Efimova, towing a doping record.<\/p>\n

Today, King echoed the support for Horton after she’d topped the heats of the 100m breaststroke. The Australian’s refusal to mount the podium “was a great baller, honestly”, said King.<\/p>\n

“We were waiting around for the awards ceremony just to see what was going to happen. It was awesome: when we walked into the dining hall after he walked in after us and the whole dining hall erupted into applause. It was pretty good to see the athletes united on his stance and supporting him as well.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Australian 100m free Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers<\/strong> weighed in this morning after emerging from the next lane to Sun in 200m freestyle heats: “I think Mack has done a few of those things now \u2013 he strongly believes in that and that is totally fine. It\u2019s Mack: it\u2019s Mack\u2019s decision to do that sort of stuff.”<\/p>\n

Chalmers said that he refused to let the storm around Sun become a distraction: “At the end of the day, Sun\u2019s here, Sun\u2019s racing. We\u2019ve just got to do what we can to swim our best races and I\u2019m not worried about my competitors, I\u2019m worried about my own race and I guess learning how to swim a 200.”<\/p>\n

Britain’s Duncan Scott<\/strong>, another through to the 200m semis, echoed the need to stay focussed on the task at hand, saying: “I’ve got my 200 free semi-final this evening. I know how I feel on it but I\u2019ll comment when I finish racing. I\u2019ve got to focus on this first but I think what has been done is there\u2019s quite a movement in the sport but I\u2019ll comment on it afterwards.”<\/p>\n

For Sun, it was business as usual as he went through his paces in the 200m freestyle heats, Chinese fans cheering wildly in the stands, silence, skepticism, doubt, distress and defiance all about them and a hero who back in 2016 at the Rio Olympic Games was booed out to his blocks from the athletes’ stand. He claimed gold then, over 200m, and last night retained the 400m world title, drawing him level with American Ryan Lochte in the league of biggest haulers in solo events at world titles: both have 10 individual gold medals, the record standing to Michael Phelps, with 15 solo golds.<\/p>\n

In September, the CAS will hear the challenge from the World Anti-Doping Agency to a decision from the FINA Doping Panel to let Sun off with a series of stern rebukes in a hearing report back in January after a four-hour dispute with testers last September ended with neither urine nor blood samples available to send for analysis.<\/p>\n

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