Swimming star Sun Yang celebrates gold win by saying Japanese anthem 'sounds terrible'

Yesterday evening, after taking gold and breaking the Asian record for the 4x100m swimming relay, a journalist asked Chinese swimming star Sun Yang how he felt after earlier winning the 400 meter event against Japan and Korea. 

"It didn't just feel great," Sun told reporters, "beating Japan felt like speaking up for the Chinese people. Honestly, the Japanese national anthem sounds terrible."

So much for winning gracefully or keeping politics from sport. "There's so such thing as sportsmanship amongst Team China," the top comment on the story observed. At least in this case they might be right.