{"id":419805,"date":"2020-02-29T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=419805"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:53:56","slug":"sun-yang-lawyer-accuses-wada-will-fight-to-race-at-tokyo-2020-sue-testing-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-lawyer-accuses-wada-will-fight-to-race-at-tokyo-2020-sue-testing-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Yang Lawyer Accuses WADA & CAS Of ‘Evil Lies’; Will Fight To Race At Tokyo 2020 & Sue Testing Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sun Yang<\/strong>‘s Chinese lawyer has lambasted the Court of Arbitration for Sport<\/strong> in a statement that effectively described the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)<\/strong> as evil liars after an eight-year ban was handed down to the swimmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his statement, Beijing lawyer Zhang Qihuai<\/strong> said that Sun would see a stay from the Swiss Federal Tribunal<\/strong> to allow him to race at Tokyo 2020 and would sue one of the IDTM\u00a0testing agents in response to the WADA ban. He also opined:<\/p>\n

\u201cFebruary 28, 2020 was a dark day. It shows the scene where evil defeats justice and power replaces self-evident truths.\u00a0On this day, CAS listened to prejudice, turned a blind eye to rules and procedures, turned a blind eye to facts and evidence, and accepted all lies and false evidence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lawyer also accused WADA of \u201cdistorting facts and (an) abuse of power\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sun will take his case to the Swiss federal Court, seek a stay on his eight-year ban so that he might race at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and sue a doping inspector who he alleges gave \u201cfalse evidence\u201d, said Zhang.<\/p>\n

The statement repeated the accusations rejected by WADA and CAS’s senior judges that doping agents from the IDTM agency based in Sweden and action on behalf of FINA, the international swimming federation, were neither qualified nor authorised to act as agents.<\/p>\n

IDTM rejected that claim outright at a CAS hearing in Montreux on November 15 last year, while FINA departed from any sense of neutrality in the case and, as a signatory to the WADA Code, backed Sun and China, a nation that is home to many of the federation’s biggest sponsors.<\/p>\n

The Swiss tribunal, with has a narrow focus of jurisdiction available to it but can reverse CAS decisions, has granted stays on judgements in the past but those tend to happen where the opposing party in cases does not raise any objection to a stay being granted.<\/p>\n

It is highly unlikely that WADA would let any plea from Sun go unchallenged. If successful, one other thing would seem much more likely: the pool at Tokyo 2020 would probably hum to the tune of the boos and jeers witnessed at Rio 2016 every time Sun stepped up to race.<\/p>\n

Swimming World’s coverage of Sun Yang & FINA Vs WADA At the Court of Arbitration for Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n