Sun Yang to miss Tokyo 2020 after second CAS ban, swimming fans say in online poll
- SwimSwam poll sees more than half of respondents say that impending second hearing will end in another ban for Chinese swimmer
- No date or new panel has been set by CAS as Summer Olympic Games loom on the horizon
Sun Yang’s recent appeal win at the Swiss Federal Tribunal over the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has raised questions over what happens next for China’s star swimmer.
Swimming website SwimSwam asked its readers for their opinion in their weekly poll, which began on December 30 and finished last week.
“Will Sun Yang swim at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021?” they asked, presenting their readers with three choices.
Some 58 per cent of respondents chose “No, he’ll be banned by CAS” with another 30 per cent choosing “Yes, his case won’t be settled by Tokyo”.
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It is in unclear when any retrial at the CAS in Switzerland will take place, with questions also raised regarding the make-up of the hearing panel.
After upholding “a challenge against the chair of the CAS Panel”, former Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini, the SFT declared they had not heard a similar challenge against fellow Italian panel member Romano Subbioto.