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Sun Yang is a leading Chinese swimmer who has won Olympic and world titles. He is also a world record-holder. In 2012, he became the first Chinese man to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming, and is the first male swimmer in history to earn Olympic and World Championship gold medals at every freestyle distance from 200m to 1,500m. A three-time Olympic gold medalist and nine-time world champion, he is also the most decorated Chinese swimmer in history. Never far from controversy, Sun was banned for three months by the Chinese Swimming Association after testing positive for the then-stimulant trimetazidine in May 2014.
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Sun Yang is a great swimmer. He is also someone who has served a drug ban, and his recent conduct shows there is reason to question how clean he is.
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