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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 supreme court explains why it ordered a retrial for Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang’s doping case, citing anti-China bias related to the killing of…
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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