Data Map: Sun Yang. Photo by China News Agency reporter Wang Dongming
According to The Voice of China news, Sun Yang’s “stimulant test storm” continued to ferment these two days. On 27th, the British “Sunday Times” reported that “Sun Yang conflicts with the banned inspectors, or will be banned for life”. On the same day, regarding the report of the British “Sunday Times” that Sun Yang was facing a lifetime ban on violating the “World Anti-Doping Regulations”, Sun Yang entrusted Zhang Qihuai, a lawyer from Beijing Lanpeng Law Firm, to make a statement according to law.
Zhang Qihuai said that the most critical problem existing in the whole process of Sun Yang’s doping test was the qualification of the testing personnel. Sun Yang had the right to refuse invalid tests and defend the dignity and innocence of athletes. Sun Yang will reserve the right to investigate the false reports of the Sunday Times and other media and individuals who report and publicize this matter. The latest progress is: Lawyer Sun Yang has sent a lawyer’s letter to the (Sunday) times, requesting that false reports be revoked within a week. Why did the whole incident start? What will Sun Yang do with the false report about the British Sunday Times?
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In 2015, at the end of the men’s 400 m freestyle world championships in Kazan world championships, Sun Yang won the gold medal with his last efforts. In the interview after the game, Sun Yang responded strongly to his attitude towards the doubt of the stimulant.
” I think the cleaner will clear up this problem. I think all foreigners, including foreign media, pay too much attention to China’s doping problem. After all the athletes got the results, they always felt that we Chinese used something. Such an idea is very disgusting and dirty.”
Immediately after the 2016 Rio Olympics, Sun Yang was once again rumored by rival Horton to be a cheater who took medicine. It can be said that Sun Yang had several troubles with stimulants.
In May 2018, under the leadership of Sun Yang, the captain of the Chinese swimming team, the athletes of the Chinese swimming team participated in the anti-doping oath ceremony at the swimming training hall of the State General Administration of Sports.
Sun Yang said:” conscientiously fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of athletes against stimulants. Give them a wake-up call. Many young athletes, including those who have just entered the national team, may think these things are far away from them, but once you enter the top 8 in the country and the top 8 in the world, these things are very frequent and normal. We need to have the obligation to cooperate with FINA, including the international anti-doping obligation and our domestic anti-doping center.”
And less than half a year later, Sun Yang once again encountered the entanglement of the” stimulant “problem. On 27th, the British Sunday Times reported that at the end of last year Sun Yang had a conflict with anti-doping inspectors, and his security guard used a hammer to smash sealed bottles with blood tests, this may cause Sun Yang to face a lifetime ban. According to people familiar with the matter, WADA World Anti-Doping Agency appealed to the international sports arbitration court during the appeal period. In response, the Times wrote at the end of the article: “when asked about this incident, Fina and IDTM did not reply.”
On the same day, Sun Yang entrusted a lawyer to issue a lawyer’s statement saying that the report was untrue. As for the false description of the Sunday Times, Zhang Qihuai, the lawyer representing the case, said that the lawyer’s letter to The Sunday Times was being drafted. First, the initiator of the incident was identified, and the next step would be to start the proceedings.
” I will send a lawyer’s letter to the (Sunday) times this evening. Then give it a week to clarify and withdraw these false articles about it. After that, we will further find out the fundamental initiator of this matter and those with bad intentions and bad intentions, and then we will make corresponding lawsuits.”
Lawyer Sun Yang: Ask the Sunday Times to explain the source of the information and further investigate the legal responsibility
on the afternoon of January 27, Sun Yang’s lawyer Zhang Qihuai issued a statement saying that the incident was on the evening of September 4, 2018, three staff members of IDTM company went to Sun Yang’s residence to conduct an anti-doping test outside the competition. There were multinomial illegal operations in the whole inspection process:
first, including blood inspector, none of the three staff members, including the urine inspector, could provide the authorization documents of IDTM company for this inspection;
Second, neither the blood inspector nor the urine inspector could provide the qualification certificate of anti-doping inspector, and the blood inspector was unable to provide the nurse’s practice certificate;
Third, the three staff members misstated in the inspection report and maliciously fabricated the fact that Sun Yang violated the World Anti-doping regulations. Later, IDTM submitted the false reports of the three staff to FINA.
Zhang Qihuai said that on November 19, 2018, FINA held a 13-hour hearing on this matter in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the certificates of Sun Yang himself, Sun Yang and IDTM company were all questioned. He himself also attended the hearing. Zhang Qihuai said that they had provided a large amount of evidence, including 58 video screenshots and surveillance videos, which objectively restored the scene situation at that time and obtained the verdict of FINA, the conclusion is that Sun Yang has no fault ‘.” On January 3, 2019, FINA ruled that Sun Yang did not violate the World Anti-doping regulations.
” The procedures, procedures and contents of the hearing need to be kept confidential in accordance with international arbitration rules. However, we can say that Sun Yang was very serious. He went to many witnesses and presented relevant evidence in court. The arbitration court was also very serious. It held a hearing at the center of FINA for more than ten hours. Finally, it made a ruling before the end of last year (2018). The specific result was that, sun Yang has no responsibility in this incident.”
According to Zhang Qihuai’s introduction, FINA authorized IDTM company to conduct doping control in China. Among them, IDTM company sent a main testing officer, who was complained by Sun Yang because he didn’t show any certificates when he tested Sun Yang for doping in October, 2017. This time, she temporarily found two people to serve as “blood test officer” and “urine test officer” to test Sun Yang. In the interview with Xinhua News Agency, the “urine inspector” in the “testing trio” said that he was “inexplicably called to help temporarily”.
In this regard, Zhang Qihuai said that the top priority is to require the Sunday Times to explain the source of the news, so as to further investigate the legal responsibilities of rumors, information leaks and other people according to different defendants.
” Our lawsuit against The Times (Sunday) must be that it has not been verified, has not interviewed Sun Yang, nor has it interviewed Sun Yang’s leader and the leader of his swimming team, we did not interview insiders, nor did we interview lawyers. We think that its words are false and it should bear the responsibility of publishing these fabricated false information. Second, if we find out who made it up, we will be held accountable to the editor and rumor maker. Third, if we can find some words that some people said during the leakage arbitration process, then we will investigate the responsibility of disclosing this arbitration related person, so now we need to find out the facts, we choose different defendants and adopt litigation procedures.”
As to whether Sun Yang himself was affected by this incident and what was the current situation, Zhang Qihuai also said for the first time:
“Sun Yang first continues to maintain a good competitive state and stable ideological mood, to actively complete pre-competition and daily training as planned. Second, to make a clear statement about this matter, you should believe in the organization, the sports committee and the leadership. Third, it will never affect the preparation for participating in the competition. Fourth, I believe that the lawyer will help him to complete relevant matters in accordance with legal procedures.”
CCTV reporter: Zhu Hongyuan
