Australia's Mack Horton (centre) with silver medallist China's Sun Yang and bronze medallist Italy's Grabriele Detti after he won the Men's 400m Freestyle event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The Australian champion insisted on Saturday his bitter feud with Sun Yang was never personal. - AFP
SYDNEY: Australian champion swimmer Mack Horton insisted on Saturday (Feb 29) his bitter feud with Sun Yang was never personal and always about ensuring the sport was clean after the Chinese star was banned for eight years.
The Olympic 400m gold medallist famously snubbed his rival for a photo-call and refused to shake his hand after a medal ceremony at last year's world championships in South Korea, reigniting a row from the 2016 Rio Olympics where Horton labelled Sun a "drug cheat".
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