Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has been banned four years in a retrial over a 2018 drug-testing case and will miss the Tokyo Olympics. The ban was backdated to Feb. 28, 2020, so he will be eligible for the 2024 Paris Games.
Sun, a six-time Olympic medalist and 11-time world champion, was suspended for eight years in February 2020, but in December a Swiss court lifted the ban and ordered the case back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for a second time, but with a different chairman of the judges.
The Swiss court ruling appeared to have swung on an objection by Sun’s lawyers to the chairman of the three-judge panel, former Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini.