Data map: In the men's 200m freestyle final of the 2020 FINA Championship Swimming Series (Beijing Station), Chinese player Sun Yang won the championship with a time of 1:45.55.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

　　Chinanews.com, April 2nd, a few days ago, the International Sports Arbitration Tribunal issued an announcement announcing that the retrial hearing of the Sun Yang case will be held from May 24 to 28 local time.

Due to the epidemic, the hearing will be conducted in the form of online video.

The results of this retrial will not be announced in court.

　　The incident 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 in the end.

Screenshot of the website of the International Court of Arbitration for Sports.

　　In January 2019, the FINA Anti-Doping Committee ruled that the doping inspection was invalid. Sun Yang did not violate the World Anti-Doping Regulations, but his actions to sabotage sampling were undesirable.

　　In November 2019, the International Court of Arbitration for Sports held a public hearing in Montreux, Switzerland, to hear the WADA’s appeal against Sun Yang and FINA.

　　In February 2020, the arbitration result of the "Sun Yang case" was officially announced. In the end, Sun Yang lost the lawsuit and was suspended for eight years.

After the February arbitration results were announced, Sun Yangfa claimed that he had entrusted a lawyer to appeal to the Swiss Federal Supreme Court in accordance with the law.

　　In December last year, the World Anti-Doping Agency website announced that it had learned that the Swiss Federal Court had decided to support the Chinese swimmer Sun Yang's application for a revised sentence and revoked the ban of the International Sports Arbitration Tribunal in February this year.

The Swiss Federal Court subsequently announced that the reason for the revocation was that one of the arbitrators in the arbitration panel had racial prejudice and discrimination.

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