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Jonathan White

Chinese swimming star Sun Yang’s upcoming trial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport will take place behind closed doors, domestic media reported.
Citing a letter from the CAS press office, Sun’s hearing will be held in private via video link rather than a public hearing, which Sun requested for his original hearing in November 2019, as neither side asked for it to “be opened up to the public”.
“Accordingly, it will be conducted in private between the parties, exclusively by video conference, and the panel and the Court of Arbitration for Sport will not broadcast a live-stream or grant access.
“Furthermore, the CAS will not give any interviews in relation to the matter.”

The new hearing – which comes after Sun’s original eight-year ban was overturned on appeal over concerns over the impartiality of panel president Franco Frattini – will begin on Tuesday, May 25.
CAS had said that the new hearing would take place from May 24 to 28, with the verdict to be delivered in due course.
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“The CAS will announce the final decision once it is ready,” the letter stated.
Sun’s swimming career hangs in the balance on the new hearing, which will feature a new panel of judges to hear the case between Wada on one side against Sun and world swimming body Fina on the other. Sun is alleged to have damaged blood vials.
The case rests on an out of competition test at Sun’s home in Zhejiang that took place in September 2018.
New Sun Yang hearing set for May 24-28: sports court
Sun won two gold medals at the Fina World Championships in South Korea in 2019 in the 200m and 400m freestyle as he awaited the first hearing before an eight-year ban appeared to leave his swimming career dead in the water.
That original hearing was blighted with controversy from the outset as translation issues held it up.
The 29-year-old could swim at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this summer as China has held open places for swimmers that won gold at the 2019 worlds.
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Sun is the defending Olympic champion in the 200m freestyle, having won gold at the Rio 2016 Games.


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China’s swimming star Sun Yang at his public hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in November 2019. Photo: AFP

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 09, 2016 China's Sun Yang poses with his gold medal on the podium after he won the Men's 200m Freestyle Final during the swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 8, 2016. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP)

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