HANGZHOU Cheap Kyrie Irving Shoes All Black , Zhejiang Province, April 24 (Xinhua) -- London Olympic champion Sun Yang has all the ban lifted Thursday and will be trained under former Chinese head coach Zhang Yadong as his long-term coach Zhu Zhigen resigned due to health reasons.
Both the Chinese swimming national team and the Zhejiang College of Sports lifted Sun's ban of competition and endorsement Thursday, and the college had allowed the super star back to training on March 19.
Sun had been banned from training, competition and commercial events by the national team and the Zhejiang College of Sports after he was detained by police for driving without a license in November last year.
"Sun has been following the regulations and well behaved in the past month. So the college decided to lift the ban and allow him back to commercial events," said a news release from the college.
Shang Xiutang, deputy head of the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center (CSAC), hopes Sun can achieve good results in the upcoming National Championships in May as well as the Asian Games in September.
"Sun is preparing for National Championships next month where he will take part in the 200m, 400m and 1,500m freestyle," said Shang. "He has some injuries and is lack of systematic training, but we still hope he can get good results, especially in the Asian Games when competing with arch rival Park Tae-Hwan."
Shang also said that Sun will be trained under Zhang Yadong till the end of the Asian Games. Zhang was the coach of former Olympic champion Luo Xuejuan in women's breaststroke.
Zhu, Sun's 10-year guidance, resigned as Sun's coach and went back to Hangzhou to take medical treatment. But he is still the coach of some Zhejiang swimmers such as Shao Yiwen and Wang Shun.
With Zhu's help, Sun grew from a swimmer with raw talent to China's first-ever male swimming Olympic champion in London Games in 2012. He won the world titles in the 400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle in 2013, becoming the first-ever Chinese to be named world best male swimmer by the sport's world governing body FINA.
Sun had parted ways with Zhu in 2013 but the two went back together after the World Championships.
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LUSAKA, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Zambia's representative in the Confederation Cup has described their elimination from the Confederation Cup as painful, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.
Nkana football team was eliminated from the continental championship after losing 3-0 to Sewe Sport of Ivory Coast on Saturday.
Team captain Sydney Kalume said the team was 90 minutes away from a semi-final slot. ""The loss was painful and we only needed a draw to qualify to the semi-finals,"" team captain Sydney Kalume was quoted as saying by the paper.
He however said the team will now concentrate on defending the local top division title and urged his teammates not to despair.
Sewe Sport and Al Ahly of Egypt qualified for the semi-finals with nine points each while the Zambian team finished third with seven points, one ahead of Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia.
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TOKYO, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition under the stewardship of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may delay the approval of the already signed Trans-Pacific Partnership accord owing to a number of related rifts with opposition parties, local media reported Wednesday.
If it is decided that ratifying the free trade deal is to be delayed, the pact's approval will be put off until an extra ordinary Diet session in autumn, as current deliberations in the Diet will end on June 1 and discussions between both sides have officially stalled.
The Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party coalition partners are concerned that if the rift is not fixed with the opposition camp and the pact not ratified, that this could adversely affect two by-elections on April 24, one in Kyoto and one in Hokkaido, and this summer's upper house election.
Talks had been strained on the matter since they began last week, with politicians from the main opposition Democratic Party and the Japanese Communist Party boycotting a lower house panel session last Friday, stating that proceedings were being conducted in an unfair manner.
Specifically, they said the panel's chairman Koya Nishikawa was conducting the session unfairly, with the opposition parties also claiming that the ruling camp had rejected calls to disclose pertinent information pertaining to previous negotiations on the TPP pact.