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Agence France-Presse

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s high-profile retrial on doping charges at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ended on Thursday after a two-day hearing which could clear the way for him to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
“The hearing is over on schedule. The date of the decision is not yet known, but it will be by the end of June at the latest,” a spokesperson for the sports court told AFP.
The swimming competition in Tokyo is due to start on July 24.
Unlike his previous hearing which was held in public, this one was organised via videoconference and was closed to the media.
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The 1,500m freestyle world record-holder appeared to have no hope of making it to the Olympics after the Lausanne-based CAS banned him for eight years in February last year for refusing to give a sample following an incident in which a member of his entourage smashed a vial containing Sun’s blood when doping inspectors visited his home.
However, the 29-year-old Sun appealed and Switzerland’s federal supreme court overturned the career-ending punishment last December over alleged bias against the swimmer, who remains a huge star in China.

Sun, who was banned for three months in 2014 for a separate doping offence, has always protested his innocence in the murky events of September 2018.
The reigning 200m freestyle Olympic champion, as well as an 11-time world champion, says the doping testers were not qualified or authorised.
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The Chinese Swimming Federation has specified that athletes who won at the 2019 world championships in Gwangju would be “automatically qualified” for the Tokyo Games (July 23-August 8).
Sun Yang, who won world titles in the 200m and 400m freestyle, meets the criteria and would therefore qualify for Tokyo if the ban is overturned – even if his physical level and the state of preparation remain a mystery.


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Sun Yang CAS hearing has ended. CAS says the decision will be published before the end of June. Photo: AFP

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 24, 2019 shows China's Sun Yang arriving to compete in the final of the men's 800m freestyle event during the swimming competition at the 2019 World Championships at Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center in Gwangju. - Sun Yang's high-profile retrial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport takes place starting from May 26, 2021, with the Chinese swimming star's Tokyo Olympics and his whole career hanging in the balance. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP) / TO GO WITH Oly-2020-2021-swim-CHN-Sun-doping,ADVANCER by Peter Stebbings

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Sun Yang before the men’s 800m freestyle final at the 2019 World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Photo: AFP

(191116) -- MONTREUX, Nov. 16, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Chinese three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang (2nd L) and his lawyers attend a public hearing in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Montreux, Switzerland, on Nov. 15, 2019, as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed against Sun Yang and FINA over FINA's previous decision in favor of Sun on his alleged anti-doping rule violations. (Photo by Alain Grosclaude/Xinhua)

FILE - In this Sunday, July 21, 2019 file photo, China's Sun Yang, centre, holds up his gold medal as silver medalist Australia's Mack Horton, left, stands away from the podium with bronze medalist Italy's Gabriele Detti at right, after the men's 400m freestyle final at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. One of China's biggest Olympic stars will undergo a rare public trial of a doping case on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 with his 2020 Tokyo Games place at stake. Three-time gold medalist swimmer Sun Yang is facing a World Anti-Doping Agency appeal in Switzerland that seeks to ban him for up eight years. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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Franco Frattini chairs the CAS hearing on Sun Yang in February, 2020.

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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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Unlike Sun’s previous hearing which was held in public, this one was organised via videoconference and was closed to the media



Unlike Sun’s previous hearing which was held in public, this one was organised via videoconference and was closed to the media.


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