The Olympic Games have been rocked by their first doping case with Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi allegedly set to face a CAS hearing today into a positive drugs test. Brazilian news website estadao.com has today reported that Chen returned a positive blood test prior to arriving in Rio for the Olympic Games. Chen competed in the women's 100m butterfly on day one and two, finishing fourth in the final ahead of Australia's Emma McKeon. But the news comes at the worst possible time for Chinese swimming after their leading swimmer, Sun Yang, was labelled a "drug cheat" by Australia's Mack Horton on the opening day of competition. The 18-year-old was due to compete in the women's 50m freestyle tomorrow, racing against Australia's sprint queens Cate and Bronte Campbell.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 12, 2016 01:41 UTC