March 8, 2020
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Australian swimmer Mack Horton has been inundated with apologies following the decision to ban rival Sun Yang for eight years, but The Institute of Public Affairs’ Gideon Rozner says it goes to show “you can’t criticize” China “for anything”.
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Sun Yang's supporters blindly stood by him, now change their tune
March 7, 2020
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Chinese fans have turned on Sun Yang in a “spray” of social-media criticism of the swimmer following the publication of the full report of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) outlining the reasons why the three-times Olympic champion has been banned for eight years. Sun, who has long been adored by loyal fans and defended robustly between his positive test of 2014 and his latest anti-doping challenge, now finds himself called “a big baby”,”arrogant” and “rude”, while the team about him is labelled “stupid and evil” in some of the posts calling on the swimmer and his entourage to ...
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Sun Yang's fans have turned on him, apologize to Mack Horton
March 7, 2020
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The tide appears to have turned on triple Olympic champion Sun Yang as social media users have begun to apologise to his great rival, Mack Horton, after the widespread publication of the Court of Arbitration for Sport report. Horton, who has been feuding with Sun since 2014 over the China star’s drugs ban, has long been the target of Chinese swim fans as they defended their hero. , that has changed since the publication of the 78-page CAS report of its findings from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal against Sun and swimming governing body Fina.
March 3, 2020
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Rest assured that when Cate Campbell stands in front of the media she will be entertaining, fun, considered, have a laugh at herself, cleverly deflect or give her opinion on whatever the story of the day is. Yesterday it was her age, Mack Horton, Fina, the Sun Yang sentence, the AIS, the 100m freestyle, the 4x100m freestyle camp, Coronavirus and a fourth Olympic campaign.
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Catee Campbell reflects on her career, current #swimming events
March 2, 2020
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Travis Tygart , the head of the United States Anti-Doping Committee known as the slayer of Lance Armstrong, calls for FINA to hand over Anti-Doping matters to an independent organization.
He wrote, "Sporting bodies have to let truly independent organisations handle all integrity matters, certainly with anti-doping."
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More pressure on FINA, this time from the US Anti-Doping Committee #swimming
March 2, 2020
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Cate Campbell is a leader on the Australian Dolphins Swim Team, both in and out of the pool and today she stood tall on the pool deck in the nation’s capital, Canberra and stood by her man Mack Horton . As she took a break from the Australian 4x100m freestyle relay squad National Camp at the AIS, Campbell looked back on Friday and news of an eight-year ban on Sun Yang handed down in favour of the World Anti-Doping Agency by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Cate Campbell urges #FINA to review their rules relating to convicted #doping cheats
March 2, 2020
AUSTRALIA
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Tony Shaw , is fuming. Silence was never golden when it came to a federation’s responsibilities to act in the interest of its athletes, suggested the chairman of the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA) and an Australian team coach himself. And he was going to be silent no more. Pointing the finger squarely at Swimming Australia, for “sitting on its hands” and not leading the charge to get Mack Horton the 400m freestyle World title back from Sun Yang.
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Tony Shaw, chairman of #ASCTA calls for #Swimming #Australia to fight for Mack Horton
March 1, 2020
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Just over two days after Chinese superstar Sun Yang was handed an eight-year period of ineligibility from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, rival Mack Horton has broken his silence on the matter.
Speaking to Australia’s 7NEWS, Horton didn’t take shots at Sun, and instead spoke about how, no matter what the call was, he continues to fully support clean sport.
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Mack Horton takes the right approach: it's about clean sport. #swimming
March 1, 2020
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Sky News host Chris Smith has said he is “extremely happy” to see the Court of Arbitration for Sport effectively end the career of Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, in a move which highlights “China’s arrogant” approach to world domination. The Olympic swimmer has been hit with an eight-year ban after the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) found the 28-year-old guilty of doping. “This is more than a bad sports story; this is a story about China’s arrogant and foul approach to world domination,” Mr Smith said. “Sun Yang deserves his punishment; but more than that, China deserves this humiliation."
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China 'deserves this humiliation' according to Sky News host Chris Smith. #swimming
Feb. 28, 2020
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Australian swimmer Mack Horton is nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for ‘Favorite Sports Star’ in Australia and New Zealand.
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Mack Horton, a man with principles deserves to be a kid's role-model. #swimming
Feb. 27, 2020
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South African swimmer Chad Le Clos listens to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Naples, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. If any thoughts were creeping into their minds that the Tokyo Olympics might be canceled due to a viral outbreak, elite swimmers Katinka Hosszú, Chad le Clos and Sarah Sjöström certainly didn’t show it during a strenuous two-hour training session Wednesday. (Andrew Medichini/Associated Press) By Andrew Dampf | AP February 27, 2020 at 5:53 AM EST NAPLES, Italy — Chad le Clos believes he has a claim on Sun Yang’s gold medal from the Rio de Janei ...
Feb. 26, 2020
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The 2019 FINA Aquatic World Championships saw its first medal ceremony filled with drama, as the men’s 400m freestyle silver medalist, Australia’s Mack Horton , protested gold medalist Sun Yang ‘s presence by abstaining from podium celebrations, standing behind the platform on the floor during the Chinese national anthem. Horton’s behavior is having ripple effects more than 6 months later, as his childhood school of Caulfield Grammar is reportedly shying away from naming its new state-of-the-art aquatic center after its first Olympic champion constituent.
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Mack Horton's former school bends a knee to the Chineese. #swimming
Feb. 26, 2020
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The leadership of FINA , the international swimming federation, sought to protect China’s Sun Yang from being banned from the sport in a doping case by backing efforts to have lead counsel for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) removed from the case, according to a Swiss Supreme Court document.
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In the spirit of "fair sport" #FINA should advocate for a quick, thorough investigation.
Feb. 24, 2020
AUSTRALIA
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An exclusive Melbourne school won’t name its new aquatic centre after Mack Horton because it could threaten its business interests with China . Caulfield Grammar School has abandoned plans to name its new $25 million swimming facility after the Olympic champion following his snub of Chinese rival Sun Yang. Horton refused to join Sun on the podium at the swimming world championships in South Korea last year, and previously labelled him a ‘drug cheat’ at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
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Mac Horton snubbed by former grammar school because of World Champs dustup.
Feb. 11, 2020
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Aussie Zac Stubblety-Cook unleashed the fastest 200m breast time of his career last December. Let's see what the man has up his sleeve at the Vic Open.
Dec. 30, 2019
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There were so many great highlights from Australian swimmers through the decade beginning in 2010 and about to end. Highlights to celebrate included Olympic and Paralympic champions, World and Commonwealth
Dec. 29, 2019
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2019 Splashbacks: Kristof Milak overturns Michael Phelps' 200 fly world record and podium protests abound at the 2019 World Championships.
Dec. 28, 2019
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Sabrina Knoll, a leading German sports writer and Swimming World contributor, hones in on the same theme for her number 1 pick of the year as that chosen by Andy
