Swim star Sun Yang’s 3-day retrial at sports court next week

<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland &mdash; The retrial in three-time Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang’s doping case will be held over three days next week, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Tuesday.</p>
<p>The court set May 25-27 for the hearing to be held in private by video link. Sun’s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/9ee3df71017b4a2bbfc656e4382aff06">first hearing in November 2019</a> took one day, was opened to the media and streamed live online at the request of his lawyers. </p>
<p>A new CAS verdict is expected before the Tokyo Olympics open on July 23.</p>
<p>The Chinese star’s eight-year ban for violating anti-doping rules was overturned on appeal to Switzerland’s supreme court last year. </p>
<p>Federal judges ruled the guilty verdict unsafe because the chairman of the CAS panel of three judges, Franco Frattini, showed anti-Chinese bias in social media comments. Frattini is a former foreign minister in Italy’s government.</p>
<p>The retrial will be judged by three different lawyers selected by the parties and the court.</p>
<p>The appeal case was brought by the World Anti-Doping Agency to challenge a tribunal ruling at swimming’s governing body FINA only to warn Sun for his conduct.</p>
<p>The case is about a failed attempt to take blood and urine from Sun when a sample collection team went to his home in China for an unannounced visit in September 2018.</p>
<p>Sun is the world champion in the 400-meter freestyle and Olympic heats in that event begin on July 24. He’s the defending Olympic champion in the 200 which starts the next day.</p>
<p>He also took gold in the 400 and 1500 at the 2012 London Olympics.</p>
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