Three-time Olympic champ banned for 4 years over blood test, retrial rules after original chair was seen to show anti-Chinese bias

Chinese swimming superstar Sun Yang has been banned for more than four years - despite asking lawyers who had successfully represented Russian athletes in previous Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearings to represent him. Three-time Olympic champion Sun’s hopes of defending his 200m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games next month have been shattered after a retrial at the court, centering on a failed attempt by testers to take blood and urine during an unannounced visit to his home in China in September 2018. Judges found Sun to have “acted recklessly” by refusing to let testers leave…