Nick Kyrgios criticizes the handling of Jannik Sinner's failed drug test, calling tennis integrity 'awful' and questioning the lack of accountability. Sinner's case, involving two positive tests for the banned steroid clostebol, has been appealed by WADA to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Kyrgios expresses concern over the perceived leniency shown towards Sinner despite the failed tests.
Australia’s Nick Kyrgios attends a training session before the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane on December 28, 2024. / -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE -- Nick Kyrgios has lashed at what he believes is the lenient treatment of world No. 1 Italian Jannik Sinner for a failed drug test and said integrity in tennis was “awful”.
Kyrgios has been scathing about the ITIA decision in the past and didn’t hold back in a press conference ahead of his return to the game at the Brisbane International after an 18-month injury lay-off. “He did fail two doping tests at separate times, as well,” Kyrgios said. “It wasn’t one after the other -- they were a different time frame, so I mean, if you think that that’s the way that it got in his system, if that’s how you think it’s happened, then.
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