{"id":448990,"date":"2020-10-11T02:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=448990"},"modified":"2020-10-11T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:59:06","slug":"sun-yang-anti-doping-fight-cost-wada-600000-annual-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-anti-doping-fight-cost-wada-600000-annual-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Yang Anti-Doping Fight Cost WADA $600,000, Annual Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s case against <strong>Sun Yang<\/strong> cost $600,000 in legal fees in 2019, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wada-ama.org\/en\/resources\/finance\/annual-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual report released this week by WADA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trial before the Court for Arbitration for Sport yielded an eight-year ban for the Chinese distance star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-vs-wada-verdict-damning-eight-year-ends-career-of-chinese-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effectively ending the 28-year-old&#8217;s swimming career<\/a>. The fight stemmed from an incident in 2018 in which Sun destroyed samples before they could be tested, adding to past bans that the swimmer had received for adverse findings in his blood. Though FINA declined to pursue punishment for tampering with the sample, WADA appealed to CAS, which held a hearing in Nov. 2019 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-verdict-the-fina-doping-panel-ruling-that-triggered-wada-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned its eight-year sentence on Feb. 28, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The case, according to the financial disclosures section of WADA\u2019s 2019 annual report signed by Chief Financial Officer <strong>Dao Chung<\/strong>, included \u201cmore than USD600,000 invested.\u201d WADA highlighted the case as the most significant single high-profile anti-doping case pursued in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Where the issue gets thorny is the disclosure of WADA\u2019s financing. WADA gets a large portion of its funding from governments ($17.3 million in total). The largest single governmental contributors, at $1.6 million each, are Poland, Japan \u2026 and China. It means China was effectively underwriting the prosecution of one of its highest profile athletes, while also paying Sun Yang <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sun-yang-appeal-has-slim-chance-of-success-says-fina-legal-eagle-as-china-debates-swimmers-18000-a-month-wage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an $18,000 per month wage<\/a> as he waged various appeals via the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s case against Sun Yang cost $600,000 in legal fees in 2019, according to the annual report released this week by WADA. 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