China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Reporter Gao Kai) The International Court of Arbitration for Sports in Geneva, Switzerland issued a notice on April 1st, local time, announcing that the retrial hearing of the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang-related case will be held on May 24, local time. Held from January to 28, and formed a new three-person arbitration team.

　　Sun Yang, 30, has won 3 gold medals in two Olympic Games and 11 gold medals in four World Championships. He is a superstar in Chinese swimming.

　　The Sun Yang case originated from an out-of-competition doping inspection on Sun Yang in September 2018. Due to doubts about the qualifications presented by the inspectors, the inspection was not completed.

　　On February 28, 2020, the International Court of Arbitration for Sports announced that Sun Yang had been banned for eight years because of his failure to comply with the regulations of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Sun Yang subsequently appealed to the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.

　　Since then, affected by the epidemic, Switzerland implemented the state of emergency law on March 20 last year, and the Sun Yang case was therefore postponed.

On April 30 last year, Sun Yang filed an appeal with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court against the International Sports Arbitration Tribunal’s decision on the suspension of competitions, demanding that the arbitration be dismissed, which was accepted.

　　In December 2020, Sun Yang’s Swiss lawyer team notified Sun Yangfang via email that they had received the decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, which was to revoke the previous ruling of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports that involved Sun Yang.

　　In January 2021, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court issued a press release stating that the reason for revoking the suspension of Chinese swimmer Sun Yang was that an arbitrator in the arbitration panel of the International Sports Arbitration Tribunal was biased and discriminatory.

　　The notice issued by the International Court of Arbitration for Sports on April 1 stated that due to epidemic control and travel restrictions, the retrial hearing will take the form of video conference.

The ruling will not be announced immediately after the hearing.

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