The Italian star was cleared of doping, saying he was unwittingly contaminated while being massaged. But that won’t wash with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal against Jannik Sinner’s exoneration for doping offences doesn’t bode well for the world’s No.1 tennis player – or for the game itself.
The spectre of being banned for two years, in the prime of your career and with ascending dominance, must be a dreadful burden. Although there’s some limited scope in the WADA code and hence in tennis’ anti-doping rules, to backdate periods of ineligibility is not a routine process. Specifically, Sinner’s case concerns the conduct of his employed fitness coach and the narrative of him purchasing, in Italy, an over-the-counter medical spray labelled Trofodermin. That product contains Clostebol.
In a situation like Sinner’s, with his posse of employed staff, he’s vicariously responsible for their actions. It’s no straightforward excuse for an elite athlete to assert that they placed faith in a doctor or physiotherapist, and thus it’s all their fault and not the athlete’s.
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