Sun Yang right to feel unfairly treated by CAS panel, Australian anti-doping lawyer says ahead of new hearing
- University of Canberra assistant professor Catherine Ordway says anyone in Sun’s shoes would feel the process was working against them
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Chinese superstar Sun Yang is right to feel he was treated unfairly by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) at his hearing in November 2019, an Australian anti-doping lawyer said.
Catherine Ordway, assistant professor at the University of Canberra, said those who watched the live-streamed hearing that resulted in an eight-year doping ban for Sun – subsequently reversed – would feel the system was working against him.
“It is very clear that Sun Yang has concerns that he has been treated unfairly: in the doping control process in question, and through the hearings in CAS,” Ordway told the Post via email.
“In a rare display of transparency, the CAS agreed to his request that the hearing be made public and live-streamed. Anyone on that stream, or who has watched it later, cannot help but put themselves in the shoes of the athlete and feel that the process was against him.”
