Watch Wada vs Sun Yang and Fina CAS hearing live from Switzerland as China’s star swimmer faces missing out on Tokyo 2020
- First public hearing at sport’s top court will be broadcast online from Switzerland with athlete giving evidence first
- Doping agency looking for a two to eight year ban for the Chinese swimming star
Today is finally the day when the World Anti Doping Agency (Wada) take on Chinese swimming superstar Sun Yang and Fina over his controversial out of competition drug test last September.
Swimming’s governing body ruled that the swimmer had technically done nothing wrong despite his entourage destroying blood samples at the test at his home in Zhejiang.
Their January ruling came after an independent inquiry into the matter.
However, Wada want that overruled and a two to eight year ban from the sport for the triple Olympic champion, with the public Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing in Switzerland on Friday.
This is only the second public hearing in CAS history and the first in 20 years when Irish swimmer Michelle Smith de Bruin appealed her suspension.
The world’s media will be at the conference centre of the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace hotel, where Sun is set to give evidence, and the rest of the world can watch on via a live stream.