Australian newspaper obtains full FINA doping panel report on Chinese Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang
- FINA doping panel accused the swimmer of taking a “foolish gamble” with his career for destroying blood vials with hammer
- Sun was cleared by swimming’s governing body FINA on a technicality to compete at this month’s world championships in South Korea
China’s controversial swimming star Sun Yang used a hammer to destroy his own blood sample, according to an explosive FINA doping panel report obtained by Australia’s Sunday Telegraph.
The triple Olympic champion and a security guard smashed vials of blood collected after independent testers visited the athlete’s villa in Zhejiang Province last September, the newspaper reported Saturday, citing the panel’s previously unpublished 59-page dossier.
Sun was cleared by swimming’s governing body FINA to compete at this month’s world championships in South Korea, triggering anger among rivals who feel he should be booted out.
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have appealed the findings of the FINA doping panel’s report, dated January 3, that decided Sun did not commit a doping violation.
Among the astonishing points of the FINA doping panel’s report seen by The Sunday Telegraph were witness claims that “Sun’s mother asked a guard to bring a hammer into the doping control room”.