Sun Yang doping hearing: tester was ‘construction worker’, says Chinese state media report
- Builder was a middle school classmate of the Doping Control Officer leading the test on Chinese swimming star
- He claims to have sent a letter to Wada and CAS with his testimony and offering to testify at public hearing
Chinese state news agency Xinhua have reported that one of the three testers who went to test Sun Yang at his home last September was a construction worker rather than a professional Doping Control Assistant (DCA).
“I am a builder and I am always busy at work, day and night. No one ever trained me about the doping test, and it is unnecessary for me to undertake such training,” he told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
“I agreed to give my words at a video conference before the public.” None of the three-person test panel appeared at the hearing, although the DCO’s direct supervisor at IDTM, the Swedish contractor used for doping tests by Fina, did testify.
That public hearing, the first at CAS for 20 years, saw Sun defend himself and his team’s actions on September 4 and 5 last year when the testers came to his home in Hangzhou.
