Nick Kyrgios is right about Jannik Sinner escaping a ban, but not because the Italian is a drug cheat.
Nick Kyrgios certainly appears to think so. He has opined that it’s beyond the threshold of what’s “ridiculous” that the Italian has escaped any ban of years or even just months after testing positive earlier in 2024 for the presence of a metabolite of an anabolic agent, Clostebol.
The short point is that for Sinner, it’s conceivable that the saga ain’t over. The question then becomes one of if, on a consideration of the ITIA tribunal’s decision, there should be an appeal commenced.the ITIA’s decision is rooted in the idea that if an athlete tests positive, twice, for the presence of an anabolic steroid, that should equate to the affected athlete being automatically “gone” for two years.Kyrgios, though, isn’t a lone tomato-thrower here.
To Shapovalov’s point, it is clear enough on a reading of the tribunal’s decision in Sinner’s case, that this isn’t a case of “contaminated substances”. Moreover, the ITIA’s WADA-compliant rules do deal with the realities that someone can breach anti-doping rules through using a “contaminated product”.
The physiotherapist used the spray, but didn’t bother to check its contents. Which is fine and would have been inconsequential, but for the fact he also gave Sinner a series of “full-body massages” in the nine-day period he used the spray while his finger was healing. Successful no-fault or negligence defences used to be tremendously rare, and must remain so given the automatic consequence of the finding is exoneration. The defence is only available in unique factual situations, where the athlete has no involvement – whether by act, negligence or omission – in committing the offence.
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