Olympic champ Sun Yang to be detained for 7 days for driving without license

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Sun Yang of Zhejiang celebrates after winning the men's 200m freestyle final of the 12th Chinese National Games in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Sept. 6, 2013. Sun Yang won the gold and set a new Asian record with a time of 1 minute 44.47 seconds. (Xinhua File Photo/Liao Yujie)

HANGZHOU, Southeast China, Nov. 4 -- Chinese Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang will be detained for seven days after local police found him driving without license in a car accident.

Sun was also fined for an undisclosed sum, Hangzhou police said on Monday.

Sun, 21, was not hurt in the accident in which his luxury Porsche SUV was rear-ended by a bus on Sunday afternoon in Hangzhou.

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