Monday, February 04, 2013

Sun Yang seems to be in trouble

After Sun Yang's great success to make Olympic history for Chinese male swimmers, he seemed to get himself into a pot of boiling water. About a month after Olympics, he quickly hopped into National university Games for golds and the local media claimed he pretended to be big gun and refused to take photos. Later, the media revealed that his national teammates including Wang Shun, Li Yunqi, Shao Yiwen and Hao Yun criticized Sun behind his back in the Weibo (Chinese twitter). Last month, he was training in Yunnan swimming camp and had a dispute with 2 reporters on the photographing issue. The reporters claimed they were forced to delete their photos from their camera by Sun and his companion whereas Sun and his companion had his own say. Only recently, another news broke when he wanted to change coach and almost at the same time, announced he is in relationship with a girl who worked as a steward on the plane that he boarded to Australia for training camp in 2010. Whether he can make his flight to Australia for training camp this month is still unknown before he sorts things out with his coach and the officials in the provincial team. Behind all the prizes, praises and reputations, it comes all kinds of challenges and resistance for him to move forward to become a one-hit star or one of the greatest swimmers.

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