Sports丨As ban ends, Sun hopes to rise again

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After more than 1,600 days away from competition, China's disgraced Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang has returned to winning ways, eyeing redemption following a controversial anti-doping rule violation.    With a long, career-threatening suspension now behind him, the three-time Olympic champion freestyler, proved over the weekend that, even at the age of 32 and without systematic training for over four years, he remains an elite competitor at the national level and his story is far from finished.    He won his first official race in 55 months on Sunday, clocking 3 min and 49.58 sec to finish first in the men's 400m freestyle final at the national summer championships, a second-tier domestic meet in Hefei, East China's Anhui province — an event that would never normally find itself under such scrutiny, were it not for Sun's return.    ▲ Following his return from suspension, China's triple Olympic champion Sun Yang won the men's 400m freestyle at the 2024 National Summer Swim ………………………………