As a wax replica of Sun Yang, the first Chinese man to win Olympic gold, was being unveiled at the Madame Tussauds Museum in Shanghai, the real Sun Yang found himself in hot water.
It was reported in by Xinhua that the swimming star will be punished by the Zhejiang College of Sports for conduct that went against a several team rules.
It appears that Sun and his long time coach Zhu Zhigen had an argument about the Olympic champion’s recent behaviour. Zhu did not approve of Sun’s publicized love affair with an air hostess and was upset with Sun’s increased commitment to his sponsors which has detracted from his training, so much so that he has not followed “systematic” training for the last 40 days.
It has also been reported that Sun had asked for Zhu to be replaced after an argument about his training regime.
Zhu and Sun were scheduled to leave for Australia to continue training with Denis Cotterell, but because of the swimmers lack of dedication the trip has been postponed.
Sun has been fined a month’s training allowance and has also been temporarily suspended from all commercial activities.
“This place is for good athletes, not for the athletes with privilege,” Li Jianshe, the college dean, told Xinhua. “Although Sun Yang has realized what was wrong with him and he promised to put it right, we have to punish him as everyone is equal when it comes to rules.”
Sun did make an attempt to apologize to his coach directly, but was not allowed to see Zhu who has recently been hospitalized due to high blood pressure and a thyroid nodule.
Breaking Bad.
Yeah like Sun is gonna go to bed at 9 peering out at the night lights of The Gold Coast. He will be going to 5 am training direct from clubbing.
China needs to set him free .
Should we swim fans make up a song ? I kinda liked the Free Nelson Mandela ditty. I am pretty lazy – so why not the Aquarius thing? They have probably never heard oF Hair in China. We could protest nude atEmbassies next to the Feng Shui & Falun gong crowd.
Msybe a YouTube Vid & then storm the embassy. That sounds fun.
publicized love affair with an air hostess ??
Where was that???
hey, Sun’s success should warrant him multiple girlfriends .. make it happen China!
He will break the 1 kid for family rule.. or won´t he if the kids are from different girlfriends??
well, one kid or not, i’m sure plans are in the works for Sun to have a child only with another top athlete to produce a Phelps-like swimmer. isn’t that how Yao Ming was born?
Did no one else notice that he forgot to put his goggles on? He left them on his forehead. The man is falling apart. Maybe he needs a new coach. I might screw a lot of things up, but I am pretty sure I could remind him to put his goggles on. I do that about twenty times a week at my current job.
But look how relaxed he is? He’s all like, “I don’t have my goggles on but I can still swim fast”.
I don´t have my google.. but I can still win the 1500.. and only swimming the last 100 free for real..
true. If Pablo Morales had worn his goggles on his forehead instead of not wearing them at all, it would have been that much more bad-ass.
Now I know why he does not dolphin kick on turns – he does not see well of all those bubbles without goggles and could re-emerge in another swimmers line and be DQ-ed. Makes sense.
If he did that on a 400 or 1500 at the end he would be DQ and could hit another swimmer who was only coming to the wall when he alreafy left it.. Double KO.
So they will at least wait for Shiwen to reach adulthood or they are already mass producing Shiwen-Yang kids on lab by now??
He has a girlfriend and has professional ambitions? Scandalous!
haha, that type of behavior cannot be tolerated at all.
I heard a rumor that Sun had given Zhu a slap …….
I thought his coach was the Australian former Hackett coach that pretty much every “****” (can´t put the word) os Australia Swim hated because he “trained” chinese swimmers instead of Australia ony..
Can’t believe this post has been up this long, with this many comments and no one has even touched: ” he has not followed “systematic” training for the last 40 days”?
No snarky anonymous commentors out there going to take a stab at this one? Especially after the Zhesi PED post nearly cracking the 100 comment barrier. I am very disappointed in this websites trolls…
i think the reason Yang isn’t under the scrutiny of the accusers is because the Chinese men doesn’t have a (known) history of systematic use of drugs. the same cannot be said about the Chinese women.
I think what Philip Johnson said is accurate, along with the fact that he’d been training in Australia – a much more open sporting culture than China. The odds of him getting away with doping in Australia would be significantly less than doing so in China.
I don’t doubt that for a second, Braden. But come on, you put “systematic” in quotations. That is begging for it, whether it is a google translator issue or not..
I find it all funny that now since there is no history of men’s doping in the same country that has had systematic doping for the women’s program that it is innocent until proven guilty. I just have a problem with those who are not equal opportunity haters, especially if he does spend every waking moment in the Australian testing pool. I have to plead ignorance, is he in the Australian testing pool?
To reference a recent Bill Simmons article (though the line of thought was more on pro sports), shouldn’t we be suspicious of every great athlete or athletic feat? Do we have an obligation to? How many of us thought or at least hoped Lance Armstrong was innocent? Hell, I thought I believed him which as I know now was just wishful thinking. In reality, I was hoping he was clean and doing so foolishly without suspicion. Is to not be suspicious is to be naive?
Do Sun Yang’s victories and world records FEEL pure and innocent and that is what our judgments are based? They feel real to me or at least I want them to be… As some detractors on the Zhesi thread say, those getting caught are being careless or some of the haters that “know”, those busted athletes are using substances that are easily traceable/being tested for.
And, SV, don’t even get my started on those teeth… Yikes.
…and no one has even brought up Sun Yang’s teeth yet either. Y’alls slippin. It’s like all the trolls are taking the day off or sumthin.
You cannot accuse Yang of doing PED when he swims without doing much swimming.
What?
Seeing as everyone is complaining that the trolls haven’t come out to play yet…
Why is it that people find it so hard to believe that the Chinese males dope? Doping is prevalent in almost every other sport that requires physical strength/skill/ability regardless of country. Weightlifting (lift heavier weight). Track and field (run faster/jump higher/jump longer/throw farther). Why is it that we believe swimming is so much different than these other sports?
Someone above referenced the Bill Simmons article on PED usage. It referenced sports that generate more money than swimming, but the same principles apply across all sports. There is fame and glory to be had in ALL sports and where there is fame and glory, there will be cheating. It just so happens that the cultural system in China puts the responsibility for clean sports on the coach and coaches don’t always have moral compasses that point due north. This is not an accusation that China is the only country that dopes (as I have a strong suspicion about a Canadian family/Brazilians/French/U.S. athletes), but it is just bringing up a point.
i agree. we would be nieve to think every sport (swimming included) is 100% clean.
naive i meant, sorry.
I’m so sorry. Maybe I swim for Australia now.
LOL
Is there a way to verify who this is??
It would be great if it were THE real Sun Yang!!
Maybe, then, he could care to discuss some nonsense with the rest of us further!!!
LOL
I took her to mile high club!
No Sun – you have been a broom cupboard victim. Ask Boris Becker.
Dear Sun, I somehow suspect she would prefer you stick with your specialty, mile long.
This is by far one of the most entertaining discussions I have read on this web site. Keep it coming…
Air Hostess? You see the grill on that guy? $20 million in endorsements must be enough to overlook those chiclets.
From what I hear he seems to have gotten what was coming to him. While most chinese swimmers respect what he has done in the pool, his cocky attitude towards his teammates and swimmers from other provinces has been pretty crappy. Nothin wrong with partying but you need to respect your coach and your teammates and get to practice on time. This is just my take on this situation.