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WADA opts not to appeal in boost for ‘contrite’ Sun
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THE World Anti-Doping agency said on Wednesday that it will not appeal against a three-month ban imposed against China’s controversial double Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang but will warn China over the case.
WADA had considered action after Sun failed a doping test in May and was banned for three months by the Chinese federation but it was only announced in November after Sun had won more titles at the Asian Games.
“WADA has reviewed the full case file for the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang and has decided not to appeal the decision by the Chinese Swimming Federation to impose a three-month sanction,” WADA spokesman Ben Nichols said in a statement.
“WADA has written to CHINADA, however, raising its concern over the delayed public reporting of the case.”
Nichols said no other comment on the Sun case would be made.
The WADA code says violations must be publicly reported within 20 days and that decisions have to be sent to WADA in the same time-period.
The China Anti-Doping Agency said it had been too busy with other cases to announce Sun’s suspension, despite his high profile. The 1,500-meter world record-holder received his suspension in July but it was backdated to May, when he tested positive at China’s national championships for the stimulant trimetazidine.
Sun completed the unannounced ban on August 17 and in September, he won three gold medals at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
As a result of the test Australia barred Sun from training at one establishment. But Chinese officials insisted they handled the case properly.
Sun, 22, said after the test was announced that he was “shocked and depressed” over his positive test, which he maintains was an accident.
He told his doping hearing that he did not know the substance was banned, and that he took it as part of prescription medication for heart palpitations, state media reported.
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