China’s Sun Yang looks to fry Australian Mack Horton in grudge return
Pair face off at world championships in Budapest after clashing durig the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro
China’s Sun Yang, the ‘enfant terrible’ of competitive swimming, is set to undergo another test of his fragile temperament at the world championships after a turbulent 2016 Olympic Games.
Likewise, there will be nowhere for Joseph Schooling to hide in Budapest this month after he stunned Michael Phelps to win Singapore’s first-ever Olympic gold last year in Rio de Janeiro.
Bad boy Sun spearheads China’s assault and will be looking to exact revenge after Australian Mack Horton robbed the hulking Chinese star of his Olympic 400 metres freestyle in Brazil.
Emotions boiled over after a pulsating final in Brazil when Horton branded Sun a “drug cheat” – a reference to a three-month doping ban his rival served for taking a banned stimulant Sun said was for a heart complaint.
The pair traded insults, triggering a diplomatic row with Chinese state-run media calling Australia a “second-class citizen” of the West, before Sun bounced back to win gold in the 200m.
