FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 18th FINA World Swimming Championships - Men's 4x200m Freestyle Heats - Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, South Korea - July 26, 2019. Sun Yang of Team China. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - China's Sun Yang says he does not deserve "insult and slander" from his rival swimmers, insisting he did not violate any rules during a controversial doping test last year and that the stand he took was in the interest of his fellow athletes.
Sun is competing at the world championships under the shadow of a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appeal against governing body FINA's decision to clear the 27-year-old of wrongdoing during the random drug test last September.
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