So Mack Horton was right, Sun Yang is a drug cheat. It is proven now, the Yang has been banned from swimming competitively for 8 years – that’s it, he is done. Sure, he challenged the verdict and had his ban reduced, it was still long enough to keep him out of the Tokyo Olympics.

Mack received death threats, not only that, his family was targeted by faceless cowards who not only hid behind screens, they targeted his family too. Well, when Sun Yang ran out of excuses and the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the ban, a whole lot of CCP synthesisers started to look like idiots. Mack has been exonerated, Sun Yang has been exposed as the drug cheat that he is. The Court of Arbitration for Sport are gutless though, Yang should have been stripped of all his medals. Horton had the family house targeted by Yang’s gutless followers, the brazen intimidation that Horton stood up too.

Horton really got the trolls riled up when he refused to take the podium with Yang after the 400 metres freestyle final in South Korea where he came second. But this isn’t sour grapes, Horton beat Yang at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games where he called him out then. It should have never got to this, they should have been on top of this. Still, the IOC, and to a lessor extent the international swimming controlling body show really get their act together, they need to be immune from pressure from China.