Swimming: 'New butterfly queen' boosts China's Olympic hopes

10 May 2021 03:12PMSHANGHAI: Chinese media hailed Zhang Yufei as"the new butterfly queen" after she soared at the national swimming championships, firing a warning of intent with the Tokyo Olympics under three months away.

"I felt exhausted in the last three days," Xinhua news agency quoted her as saying, having also taken part in relay races.Zhang, who was a disappointing sixth in the final of the 200m fly at the Rio 2016 Games, could be China's leading light in the pool at the Tokyo Games with Sun Yang's participation in severe doubt.Sun, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, will go before the Court of Arbitration for Sport later this month with his career hanging in the balance.

But Switzerland's top court overturned the ban, in a surprise decision in which it said CAS was guilty of bias."The tremendous progress of the new butterfly queen Zhang Yufei is the most exciting and encouraging for Chinese swimmers and the swimming industry," the newspaper said.

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