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Agence France-Presse

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Thursday that a new hearing for Sun Yang, the Chinese swimming star who had an eight-year ban for doping overturned last year, will be held in May.
“A new hearing will take place during the week of 24-28 May 2021,” CAS said in a statement.
Switzerland’s federal supreme court overturned the ban on the 29-year-old, who was accused of destroying a blood vial with a hammer when collectors visited his home in September 2018, over alleged bias towards the triple Olympic champion.
The new hearing takes place just two months before the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics are held.
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Sun, the 1,500m freestyle world record-holder, had initially been suspended in February 2020.
However, the Swiss federal court agreed with the swimmer’s lawyers who argued that the president of the CAS panel, Italian Franco Frattini, had previously made anti-Chinese tweets. They claimed the Twitter statements were racist in nature.

“Following the decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal of 22 December 2020 to remove the previous President of the Arbitral Panel, the other Panel members stepped down and an entirely new panel was appointed,” added the CAS statement on Thursday.
It will be composed of new president Hans Nater of Switzerland, France’s Jan Paulsson and Bernard Hanotiau of Belgium.
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“At the end of the hearing, the panel will begin its deliberations and prepare its decision.
“It will not be announced when the hearing ends, but at a later date,” CAS said.
Sun has fiercely declared his innocence in the affair.
“I firmly believe in my innocence,” he told China’s Xinhua news agency soon after the original judgment by CAS in February last year.
“I will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth.”
He also repeated his defence that the doping testers who went to his home in September 2018 were not qualified.
“Let more people know the truth,” added Sun, who served a three-month doping ban in 2014.


“I believe in my innocence! Believe in the truth and defeat the lie!”
Thanking China’s sports authorities and his supporters – he is hugely popular in China – Sun said: “I will fight to the end to defend my legitimate rights and interests!”
The Chinese Swimming Association (CSA) said “we deeply regret the decision of CAS” and echoed Sun’s assertion of events in 2018, when a vial of his blood was smashed with a hammer.
The CSA said the testers were “personnel without professional training and legal qualification to collect athlete samples, and the activity was illegal and invalid”.


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Sun Yang (centre) at his initial CAS hearing last year. Photo: AFP

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epa08254831 (FILE) - Yang Sun of China celebrates after winning in the men's 400m Freestyle Final during the Swimming events at the Gwangju 2019 FINA World Championships, Gwangju, South Korea, 21 July 2019 (issued 28 February 2020). China's multiple Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang, 28, has been banned from competing for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on 28 February 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland. EPA-EFE/PATRICK B. KRAEMER *** Local Caption *** 55352365

Franco Frattini chairs the CAS hearing on Sun Yang in February, 2020.

epa08254845 (FILE) - Chinese swimming star Sun Yang (2-L), reacts, as he arrives for the Court of Arbitration for Sport, (CAS) public hearing, in Montreux, Switzerland, 15 November 2019 (issued 28 February 2020). China's multiple Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang, 28, has been banned from competing for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced on 28 February 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland. EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT *** Local Caption *** 55634140

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China's Xu Jiayu starts when winning the gold medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke final during the swimming competitions of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

China's three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang at the 2019 world championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Sun was banned for eight years in a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday for breaking anti-doping rules. Photo: Bernd Thissen/dpa

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(110413) -- DOHA, April 13, 2011 (Xinhua) -- Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani (L) and Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini attend the press conference after the closing of the first Contact Group Meeting on Libya in Qatari, capital of Doha, on April 13, 2011. Participants at the conference on Wednesday agreed to establish a Temporary Financial Mechanism for the Interim Transitional National Council of Libya opposition and international community to manage revenues to assist finance and structural needs in Libya. (Xinhua/Maneesh Bakshi) (zw)

(FILES) This file photo taken on November 15, 2010 shows China's Sun Yang (L), Li Yun Qi (2nd L), Jiang Haiqi (2nd R) and Zhang Lin (R) celebrating gold on the podium during the award ceremony for the men's 4x200m freestyle relay in the swimming event of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou. - Jiang starred alongside the much-decorated Sun Yang in winning a historic relay swimming bronze medal for China at the London 2012 Olympics. But now in 2020 he is doing national duty of a very different kind -- as a policeman saving lives on Shanghai's Huangpu River. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)

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Chinese swimming star Sun Yang at the Court of Arbitration for Sport public hearing in Montreux, Switzerland in 2019. Photo: EPA

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 23, 2019 China's Sun Yang wears headphones prior to the final of the men's 200m freestyle event during the swimming competition at the 2019 World Championships at Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center in Gwangju, South Korea. - China's triple Olympic swimming gold medallist Sun Yang has been found guilty of refusing to give a doping sample and banned for eight years in an eagerly-awaited judgement from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on February 28, 2020. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)

(200229) -- BEIJING, Feb. 29, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Matthieu Reeb, secretary general of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), announces the court's ruling in Lausanne, Switzerland, Feb. 28, 2020. Chinese Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang was handed an eight-year ban as the CAS upheld the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)'s appeal on Friday. (Xinhua/Chen Junxia)

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Switzerland’s federal supreme court overturned the ban on the 29-year-old Sun over alleged bias towards the triple Olympic champion



Switzerland’s federal supreme court overturned the ban on the 29-year-old Sun over alleged bias towards the triple Olympic champion.


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