It was a very disgraceful display of bad and uneducated manners of an Aussie fellow in front of millions of worldwide watchers and cameras. Even from the footages captured in the pool before and after the event, this Horton had shown a sheer dislike of his Olympic rival, Sun, for various reasons other than an accusation of Sun in his arrogant mindset. Is Sun positive in the doping tests during and in this Rio Olympic ? Horton had his mind so screwed up and so very uneducated to harbor such Olympic feelings against his rival which is totally lack of Olympic Spirits ( an icon stands up for decades ). He should surrender his top prize ( gold medal ) for nothing since it was so disgraceful to Australia and IOC, that is, a bad symbol of arrogance and poor mannerism, if any of it left.
Though this Sun used to be arrogant in certain ways in the past, he should now learn how to be respectful and humble as well as strong like a great man.
Read on: ....
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7 -- China's Olympic swimming team has demanded an apology from Australian gold medallist Mack Horton after his "malicious personal attack" on rival Sun Yang.
Horton described Sun as a "drug cheat" last week and refused to retract the comments after defeating his rival in the 400m freestyle final at the Rio 2016 Games on Saturday.
"We have been noticing what has been said in the past two days by Horton, who launched a malicious personal attack [on Chinese swimmers]," Chinese swim team manager Xu Qi said on Sunday.
"We think his inappropriate words greatly hurt the feelings between Chinese and Australian swimmers. It is proof of a lack of good manners and upbringing. We strongly demand an apology from this swimmer."
Sun, who won gold in the 400m freestyle and 1500m freestyle at the London 2012 Olympics, served a three-month ban in 2014 after testing positive to a banned substance.
The 24-year-old said he unwittingly took the drug as part of treatment for a chronic heart problem.
After winning the gold medal race on Saturday, Horton said: "I used the words drug cheat because he tested positive. He's one of the athletes here who has tested positive."
Hey, is Sun positive in the doping tests in and during this Rio Olympic ? Such dump Aussie boofhead!
The Australian's comments prompted a heated response on social media, where many Chinese fans describing the remarks as unjustified.
"" The U.K.'s Daily Telegraph reported on Aug. 10 that Australian Olympic swimmer Mack Horton had finally offered an apology about his comments alleging that Chinese swimmer Sun Yang was a "drug cheat." However, the apology was not to Sun himself, but rather to those with similar names to Mack Horton, who have been harrassed on social media in the wake of Horton's comments.""
The above remarks by Horton can be seen as racially prejudiced against Chinese folks and it is an offence in Australia which can be treated as a racial slur. How come Aussies are so arrogantly abusive and becoming so in this manner will definitely damage Aussie image in this world ? His father was quite naïve to chide that his son was brave to openly criticize a competitor under the auspicious flag of the IOC though Sun was never picked up for drug doping in this Rio Olympic . Horton does not deserve a top prize for such verbal abuse against a swimming competitor in the Olympic; that is won by mischievous acts is never a honor but instead insulted and disgraced Australia and Aussies ( more than 80% in an Aussie poll thought it wasn't the right thing to do ).
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