Sun Yang CAS doping hearing postponed for ‘personal reasons’ – October at the earliest
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Chinese swimming star Sun Yang’s hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that was scheduled for September will not happen before October, according to the court.
“The CAS confirms, further to consultation with the parties, that a hearing was tentatively scheduled for September 2019 but because of unexpected personal circumstances, one of the parties was obliged to request a postponement of the hearing,” said a statement on the CAS website.
“Such request was assented to by the other parties and accepted by the CAS Panel. A new hearing date will be fixed as soon as possible and but is unlikely to be before the end of October 2019.”
The hearing, brought by the World Anti Doping Agency (Wada) after Sun was cleared of wrongdoing by swimming’s governing body Fina in a January hearing, will also be public as Sun requested. If athletes ask for a public hearing, the CAS is obliged to grant their request.
Sun’s lawyers made the request for a public hearing in July “to be fully transparent and to clear his name”.
The CAS statement also said the hearing would likely be held in Switzerland.