FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 400m Freestyle Medal Ceremony - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 21, 2019. Gold medallist Sun Yang of China, silver medallist Mack Horton of Australia and bronze medallist Gabriele Detti of Italy. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Mack Horton has received a warning from swimming's world governing body FINA over his refusal to share a podium with China's Sun Yang in protest of the gold medallist's doping history.
Sun, who had served a doping ban in 2014 and was labelled a "drug cheat" by Horton before the Rio Olympics final, was given the green light to compete in Gwangju after being cleared by a FINA panel of breaching the governing body's rules earlier this year.
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