SYDNEY: Australian champion swimmer Mack Horton insisted on Saturday (Feb 29) his bitter feud with Sun Yang was never personal and always about ensuring the sport was clean after the Chinese star was banned for eight years.
The Olympic 400m gold medallist famously snubbed his rival for a photo-call and refused to shake his hand after a medal ceremony at last year's world championships in South Korea, reigniting a row from the 2016 Rio Olympics where Horton labelled Sun a"drug cheat".
While Horton's stance won widespread support within the swimming community, it provoked a furious reaction in China with his Instagram account trolled, some even posting death threats. The CAS decision upheld an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency against swimming's ruling body FINA and Sun, who had already served a three-month doping ban in 2014.
"His legacy will always be linked to that of Sun, a now semi-tragic figure who will be revered as a sporting martyr in China regardless of the CAS ruling," it added.The Sydney Daily Telegraph took a similar stance, headlining:"Mack Horton's crusade vindicated."
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