{"id":421746,"date":"2020-03-10T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=421746"},"modified":"2020-03-16T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:45:42","slug":"the-week-that-was-sun-yang-saga-continues-italy-cancels-olympic-trials-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-sun-yang-saga-continues-italy-cancels-olympic-trials-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was: Sun Yang Saga Continues, Italy Cancels Olympic Trials For Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sun Yang\u00a0<\/strong>story continues as his coach\u00a0Denis Cotterell\u00a0<\/strong>has ended his tenure with the Chinese Swimming Association after the full report<\/a> of why Sun was handed an eight year ban was released to the public last week. His Chinese supporters have also turned on him and apologized to his chief rival\u00a0Mack Horton\u00a0<\/strong>for how they treated him online after the podium protest at the 2019 World Championships.<\/p>\n

The Italian Swimming Federation also cancelled their Olympic Trials amidst the coronavirus outbreak ongoing in the world.<\/p>\n

Read below the five biggest stories in the Week That Was sponsored by\u00a0Suitmate<\/a>.<\/p>\n