Swimming

China's swimmer Sun still shining bright after troubled year

By Julian Linden

(Reuters) - Sun Yang has always been different from China's other top swimmers, as much a maverick as a pioneer.

And not just because he is the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. Or that he spent time in jail.

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