Chinese swimming ace Sun Yang got a bit of payback for his Olympic defeat by pulling away for a dominating win Sunday over rival Mack Horton of Australia in the men's 400-meter freestyle.
Sun Yang qualified fastest for the men's 200m freestyle final at the Rio Olympics, easily winning his semifinal on Sunday.
Chinese swimming ace Sun Yang hopes a successful defense of his titles at next month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics will finally purge the controversies that have engulfed him in recent years.
Sun Yang is still the top icon of the Chinese swimming team, said rising swimming star Ning Zetao during an interview on Wednesday.
Two-time defending champion Sun fails to show up for the 1,500-meter freestyle final Sunday night, creating chaos minutes before the event.
Sun Yang showed his dominance in the long distance freestyle by winning the men's 800m freestyle for the third straight time at the world championships on Wednesday.
Britain's world championships debutant James Guy beat hot favorite China's Sun Yang to win the men's 200-meter freestyle at the Kazan worlds on Tuesday.
China's star swimmer Sun Yang proved that he is still the fastest man in the men' s 400-meter freestyle at the Kazan world championships here on Sunday.
China's world and Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang served a three-month ban for a failed doping test earlier this year.
Sun Yang had been labeled China's "bad boy" of swimming for a number of out-of-pool scandals, but the young star says he has learned a lot from the ups and downs and is ready to embark on a new phase of his career.
Swimming star Sun Yang and his South Korean counterpart Park Taehwan always appear as hostile rivals but in reality they share respect and admiration.
Olympic champion Sun Yang ranked first in the men's 200-meter freestyle preliminary at the Swimming National Championships, which kicked off Monday in east China's Qingdao.
Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang has parted company with longtime coach Zhu Zhigen again, the Zhejiang College of Sports, with which they are affiliated, confirmed at a media briefing on Thursday.
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