In the course of the nationwide uprising in Iran, despite the fluctuating trend of gathering crowds that come of different sizes and various locations,
Franco Frattini, the former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and a great friend of the Iranian people and their organized Resistance, passed away on
12/24/2020
We’ve seen tweets lead to writers, broadcasters and even athletes losing jobs, but it’s rarer still to see tweets impact an international doping case. That’s what has happened with Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, though. Sun (seen above in 2015) has long faced accusations of doping, but swimming governing body FINA declined to bring charges against him last year; after that, though, the World Anti-Doping Agency brought their own case against him (alleging that he refused to cooperate with antidoping officials) to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which wound up issuing an eight-year ban to him this February following a November 2019 hearing. Sun appealed to a Swiss federal court with complaints about the CAS hearing, though, including that panel chair Franco Frattini (a former Italian foreign minister) had previously made anti-Chinese remarks on Twitter and was not impartial. And that court has now ruled in his favor. Here’s more on that from Tariq Panja of