Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s retrial down to CAS judge’s history of hostile tweets about dog meat, Swiss court says – ABC News

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has explained why it ordered a retrial for Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang’s doping case, citing anti-China bias related to killing dogs for food by one of the judges in the case.

• The court said the arbitrator had tweeted about animal protection issues, without the restraint required of judges
• In the tweets the arbitrator castigates a Chinese practice of dog slaughter and denounces the consumption dog meat
• Sun Yang’s case has now been sent back to the Court of Arbitration…

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