Chinese swimmer Sun Yang will miss the Tokyo Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday handed him a ban of four years and three months for violating anti-doping rules.
CAS, which came to the decision after a high-profile three-day retrial, said the suspension was backdated to February 28, 2020.
The swimming competition at the Tokyo Games, postponed a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, is due to start on July 24.
The 1500m freestyle world record-holder appeared to have no hope of making it to the Olympics after the Lausanne-based CAS banned him for eight years in February last year for refusing to give a sample following an incident in which a member of…
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