THE World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA) Yes, he calls for severe sanctions against Jannik Sinnerthe current world number 1 in tennis who gave twice positive for clostebol during a 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 losing the points and money won at the Indian Wells Masters 1,000, a tournament in which he gave this double positive.
For WADA, the body responsible for coordinating and monitoring the fight against doping in sport, Jannik Sinner must have a sporting sanction and that is why he is asking for a sentence 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 to compete as if the two positives had not occurred .
This ITIA resolution is the one that is currently reproduces 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 seeks a sanction against Sinner “between one and two years”.
The World Anti-Doping Agency considers that the ITIA’s conclusion on the Sinner affair “was not correct” according to applicable standards and, therefore, “requests a period of ineligibility of between one and two years”, also indicating in a press release that “it does not request the cancellation of any result, except for that which has already been imposed by the court of first instance.
“As this matter is currently pending before the CAS, WADA will not make further comments at this time,” the organization also indicates through the press release in which it announces its decision to appeal the resolution of the independent tribunal of the International Agency for the Defense of Human Rights. Protection of human rights.
The defense of Jannik Sinner
It should be remembered that for the ITIA court, this presence of clostebol, which is the banned substance because it improves the performance of tennis players, in Sinner’s body happened during the treatment you received from your physiotherapist. The substance for which the Italian tested positive, clostebol, improves the performance of tennis playersits consumption is therefore 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 treat a cut finger.
Since he first tested positive in a test at the American tournament in Indian Wells, world number one Jannik Sinner has played in nine tournaments, including ten with the current China Open taking place Currently. Of these nine tournaments already completed, won fourhighlighting the US Openthe fourth and final Grand Slam of the season – the second of his career.
