Three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang, according to the criteria of the Chinese Swimming Federation, will not be able to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, reports NBC.
According to the selection rules, the results of the finals of the World Championships in Fukuoka and Doha, as well as the Chinese Championships in April 2024, will be considered qualifying.
If no one swims faster than the “A” qualifying score, athletes with a lower score, but born on or before January 1, 2006, may be allowed to compete in the Games.
According to NBC Sport, athletes suspended for more than a year for anti-doping rule violations will not be allowed to qualify.
Sun Yang faces a four-year ban which expires in May 2024.
In 2018, Sun Yang smashed a test tube containing his sample with a hammer in front of doping control officers who came to test him. He initially refused to give urine, then he smashed the container with a hammer and extracted a blood sample. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) suspended Sun Yang for four years and three months for violating anti-doping rules. The suspension period begins on February 28, 2020, due to which the swimmer missed the Tokyo Olympics.
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