Translation issues mar start of Sun Yang doping case hearing
(World News USA)

MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) - A blockbuster doping case got lost in translation with Chinese swimmer Sun Yang on the stand. Imprecise and incomplete exchanges relayed by courtroom translators into English and Chinese frustrated even Sun´s own lawyers on Friday during his opening statement and cross-examination in the first session of a scheduled 12-hour hearing. At one point, the three-time Olympic champion´s London-based lawyer, Ian Meakin, apologized for asking his client leading questions `but the translation was so bad.` In a landmark public hearing - the first in 20 years held in open session by the Court of Arbitration for Sport - Sun could be banned from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The...