BEIJING: China's double Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang was sentenced to seven days in police detention Monday for driving without a licence after a Porsche Cayenne he was steering was in collision with a bus.
Police in the eastern city of Hangzhou decided to put Sun, a huge star in China after winning the 400m and 1500m freestyle golds at London 2012, under "administrative detention" for seven days, the state-run Legal Daily reported.
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