Anger at Sun’s testing ‘story’

AUSTRALIA’S Cate Campbell has questioned Sun Yang’s over-reaction in destroying his doping samples while fellow international swimmer Chad le Clos said it was a “joke” the Chinese star claimed he did it because the chaperone was not a professional.

The dissatisfaction is growing among elite swimmers over Sun’s defence of two anti-doping charges.

With claims the official who was there to observe Sun on the day of his infamous run-in with doping testers was actually a builder, the Chinese swimmer’s team has argued chaperones needed proper training and credentials to observe athletes urinate.

But South African Olympic champion Chad le Clos said elite swimmers knew that was not the case.

“I recently had a chaperone who was a 19-year-old student,” le Clos said. “Did I object? Of course not because all he had to do was watch me provide a sample, that’s normal. For Sun Yang to come out say anything else is crazy. It’s just a joke that anyone would think you can smash your own blood samples.”

Australian freestyle sprint queen Cate Campbell, pictured, said she would always make the point of treating chaperones with courtesy because of the simple but thankless role they had to perform.

“There is no perfect solution or perfect procedure or perfect system in place but this is the system that we have and everyone needs to work within it,” she said.

“If he feels the system wasn’t correct, then he has every right to defend himself and we shouldn’t infringe on that, but I’ve never smashed a vial of my own blood with a hammer, I’ve never even come close to doing that.

“I’ve had drug testers turn up at my door at 5.30 in the morning and I’ve let them in it and I’ve produced the blood and produced the urine samples and I’ve said thank you very much for your time and left it at that.”