Sun Yang won double World Cup gold at 200 and 400 meters freely at the World Cup in South Korean Gwangju this summer.
Although he was sentenced today to eight years in prison for drug offenses, the Chinese will be able to retain his medals.
It does not like SVT Sports sim expert Lars Frölander.
- He will not get rid of the medals and I think it is strange. This (the doping crime, ed. Note) happened well before the World Cup. I don't understand the decision there. I think it's a given that he'll get rid of them. That should be obvious, but I don't know how they reasoned about it. Manipulating doping tests is like being doped and then it should be retroactive, he says.
What do you think about the penalty in general?
- I was very uncertain how far it would be but I thought he would be punished given how he handled the doping test. Had he been released I would have thought it was a very dangerous precedent, that you can break your tests if you are not satisfied with the test staff. I thought that was very important.
Are you surprised by the length of the penalty? After all, he has not been punished for being baptized.
- No, but he has been punished before so the length I think. It gets a lot tougher the second time and it's just right. I have nothing to say about it. It should be tough.
What I react a little to is that Fina quite clearly free him in the first position and that Wada must step in. Isn't that a bit contradictory?
- Yes, I think so, but I also know that the top management within Fina has very strong ties to these countries. Especially China. So there might be some interest in not tapping him so hard. There's a lot of politics in that, unfortunately. Therefore, it is so good that this arbitration court exists. It is really needed.