The World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA) Yes, he calls for a harsh sanction for Jannik Sinnerthe current world number 1 in tennis who gave twice positive for clostebol in an anti-doping control. The Italian was spared a major sanction, such as spending months without being able to compete, and simply he received a light punishment by losing the points and the money earned in the Indian Wells Masters 1,000, a tournament in which he gave this double positive.
For WADA, the body in charge of coordinating and monitoring the fight against doping in sports, Jannik Sinner does have to have a sports sanction and that is why he requests a punishment of one to two years for the Italian tennis player. It should be remembered that an independent tribunal of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) considered Sinner not guilty or negligent, which is why he continues competing as if the two positives had not occurred.
That ITIA resolution is the one that is now recurs the World Anti-Doping Agency, which actually presented the appeal on September 26, although it was announced this Saturday. Specifically, WADA filed an appeal with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in which it requests a sanction against Sinner of “between one and two years.”
The World Anti-Doping Agency considers that the ITIA’s conclusion on the Sinner case “was not correct” according to the applicable standards and, therefore, “requests a period of ineligibility of between one and two years”, also indicating in a statement that “it does not seek the annulment of any result, except that which has already been imposed by the court of first instance.”
“As this matter is now pending before the CAS, WADA will not make any further comments at this time,” the organization also states through the statement in which it announced its decision to appeal the resolution of the independent tribunal of the International Agency for the Protection of Human Rights. Integrity in Tennis.
The defense of Jannik Sinner
It should be remembered that for the ITIA Court this presence of clostebol, which is the substance that is prohibited because it improves the performance of tennis players, in Sinner’s body arrived during the treatment you received from your physical therapist. The substance for which the Italian tested positive, clostebol, improves the performance of tennis playersso its consumption is strictly prohibited on the circuit.
This substance, present in “less than a billionth of a gram,” according to the Italian tennis player’s team, ended up in Sinner’s body during the treatment he received from his physiotherapist, who “bought a product over-the-counter in an Italian pharmacy to cure a cut on your finger.
Since testing positive for the first time during a test carried out at the American tournament in Indian Wells, Jannik Sinner, who is number one in the world, has played nine tournaments, ten with the current China Open that is currently being held. . Of those nine tournaments already completed, has won fourhighlighting the US Openthe fourth and last Grand Slam of the season – the second of his career.
