Cas announces today that the hearing is being translated and translated to facilitate the judges' decision. The trial-like hearing, which was broadcast live online, contained many misunderstandings where, in particular, Sun Yang's lawyer requested corrections on what was said. It was an intense day with ten hours of negotiation.

Sun Yang brought his own interpreters, but they were replaced in connection with the lunch break and a Wada representative had to interpret. It is the anti-doping organization Wada that has reported Sun Yang for doping crimes after the international swimming association Fina contented itself with giving the Chinese a warning. The punishment scale is between two and eight years because it would be a second doping violation for Sun Yang.

It was in September last year that Sun Yang received an unannounced visit by doping testers, which he acknowledged in court that he recognized from previous tests, and left blood and urine tests, which were broken with a hammer by a person in Sun Yang's team before the inspector left the site.

Sun Yang's defense was that he did not believe that the test subject identified himself adequately and that he became suspicious of the whole situation which he considered unsettling.

Controversial Sun Yang, which is immensely popular in China, took double World Cup gold in South Korea last summer and was boycotted by several other swimmers on the podium.

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