The icon of the Chinese swimming Sun Yang was suspended eight years Friday by the Arbitral Court of Sport (CAS) for having destroyed with a hammer a sample during an unexpected doping control, in September 2018, announced the CAS Lausanne, this Friday. Sun Yang, 28, is thus deprived of the Tokyo Olympics next summer. He can still appeal to the Swiss Federal Court. First Chinese crowned Olympic swimming champion in men (London-2012, 400 and 1500 m), Sun Yang risked two to eight years of suspension. He had already been suspended for three months for a positive control of a stimulant (trimetazidine) in 2014.
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