﻿{"id":410210,"date":"2020-01-09T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T08:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=410210"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:18:13","slug":"sun-yang-withdraws-from-fina-showcase-citing-tokyo-2020-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-withdraws-from-fina-showcase-citing-tokyo-2020-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Yang Withdraws From FINA Showcase Citing Tokyo 2020 Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Sun Yang<\/strong> has withdrawn from the <strong>FINA<\/strong> Champions Series in Shenzhen next week, telling his China teammates in social media posts that he will see them in Qingdao for Olympic trials in March and continue to focus on his <strong>Tokyo 2020 Games<\/strong> preparations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The news follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-danas-rapsys-to-clash-in-fina-champions-swim-series-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FINA announcement including Sun as part of a delegation of 12 Chinese swimmers<\/a> invited by the international federation to race in its newest event, in answer to stiff competition from the <strong>International Swimming League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sun is awaiting a verdict expected this month from <strong>Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)<\/strong> judges after a hearing was held in Montreux las November into an acrimonious<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>exchange with anti-doping testers in September 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>FINA\u2019s Doping Panel<\/strong> let Sun off with a serious caution in which the Olympic 200m freestyle champion\u2019s behaviour was described as \u201cextremely foolish\u201d, after a four-hour argument with testers through the night ended with no urine sample being produced and the blood sample that had been Handed over and signed off by Sun subsequently withdrawn and removed from the chain of official custody. Sun\u2019s legal team argue that there was no chain of custody because the paperwork and credentials of testers fell shy of what was required under the guidelines of the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">WADA appealed the FINA decision to CAS, the details of which are laid out and analyzed by a CAS arbitrator who has no involvement with the Sun Yang case.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-vs-world-anti-doping-agency-wada-a-detailed-analysis-from-cas-arbitrator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the details of which are laid out and analyzed by a CAS arbitrator who has no involvement with the Sun Yang case. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WADA lawyers maintain that the organisation\u2019s guidelines are just that and that the only thing that counts as required standard are the actual rules, which they say were complied with.<\/p>\n<p>A decision in the case is due this month and may either end Sun\u2019s career or allow it to continue against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/chad-le-clos-and-sarah-sjostrom-call-for-lifetime-bans-fina-ceremonies-for-those-cheated-out-of-medals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a backdrop of widespread discontent among fellow athletes from around the world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, in posts on Chinese social media Sun addresses teammates to say:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFight! 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I will see you in the Championships in Qingdao this March.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In another post, Sun announces to his fan club that he has withdrawn from the FINA event to focus on his preparations for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_410287\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-410287\" data-attachment-id=\"410287\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-withdraws-from-fina-showcase-citing-tokyo-2020-focus\/af4e9cbb-e8d6-4326-bc18-52849b9c8025\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AF4E9CBB-E8D6-4326-BC18-52849B9C8025.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"828,856\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sun Yang takes to social media to say he won\u2019t be racing at the FINA meet\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;9.1.2020 Sun Yang takes to social media to say he won\u2019t be racing at the FINA meet&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sun Yang takes to social media to say he won\u2019t be racing at the FINA meet&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AF4E9CBB-E8D6-4326-BC18-52849B9C8025-700x500.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AF4E9CBB-E8D6-4326-BC18-52849B9C8025.jpeg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-410287\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AF4E9CBB-E8D6-4326-BC18-52849B9C8025-700x500.jpeg\" alt=\"AF4E9CBB-E8D6-4326-BC18-52849B9C8025\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-410287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sun Yang takes to social media to say he won\u2019t be racing at the FINA meet<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Yang has withdrawn from the FINA Champions Series in Shenzhen next week, telling his China teammates in social media posts that he will see them in Qingdao for Olympic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7532,"featured_media":381604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[34385],"class_list":["post-410210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2020-tokyo-olympic-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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