Report slams Sun’s conduct

THE release of the full report into Sun Yang’s doping case has lifted the lid on the extraordinary lengths the disgraced Chinese swimmer and his lawyers went to in order to try and wriggle out of his brazen act of cheating.

The Court of Arbitration’s explosive 78-report could not have been more scathing of Sun’s behaviour, including repeated warnings about intimidating the independent testers who carried out the aborted out-of-competition at his home in China in September 2018 and were material witnesses.

Sun and his team denied intimidating the doping officers who were there when he destroyed his own blood samples before they could be tested, but none appeared at his public hearing in Switzerland after expressing fears for their safety.

“The actions of the athlete were wholly inappropriate. There was no justification, whether compelling or otherwise, for him to act as he did,” the report stated.

Sun (pictured right) has vowed to appeal the verdict to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, but legal experts have said his chances of success are slim because only procedural matters can be considered.

The report could not have been more critical of Sun’s actions but perhaps the most alarming revelations were the number of times the World Anti-Doping Agency complained about witnesses being intimidated.

Sun and his team denied any involvement in the alleged intimidation, though he did confirm his mother Ming Yang had approached two of the testers to “gather information about the case and seek assistance from them”.