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Sun Yang trains at home for Tokyo 2020 as he awaits CAS doping verdict
- Swimmer eyeing gold in 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle events at Olympic Games in Japan this summer
- Court of Arbitration for Sport yet to rule on Wada’s appeal for out of competition doping test
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China’s triple Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang has been in training in his home town during the coronavirus outbreak, state media have reported.
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Sun normally trains in Beijing, where he was before the Lunar New Year, but has remained in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, as the country battles the virus.
Beijing has introduced a mandatory 14-day quarantine for anyone arriving in the capital, while Zhejiang introduced a lockdown of communities and road blocks in January. Sun donated meals to police at one roadblock.
Those measures have since been eased by the provincial government, which has seen the third-highest number of cases behind Hubei and Guangdong.
“I must keep training and striving for my personal goals,” Sun told CGTN of his training sessions behind closed doors at the Zhejiang College of Sports.
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“This is a painstaking process, and it might be harder than preparing for the Asian Games or World Championships, but I always want to prove myself.”
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