Roma – Intake of minimum quantities of prohibited substances within which proceedings against the athlete will not be triggered. In practice, it will be very difficult for new Sinner cases to occur again. Wada, the world anti-doping agency, as announced last week to L’Equipe by director general Olivier Niggli, has in fact made some changes to its code which will come into force effective from 1 January 2027.
Sinner, preparation for Dubai. Then Christmas with the family, the Australian Open and the Clostebol ruling
by Jacopo Manfredi
‘Contaminated source’ instead of ‘contaminated product’
Among the new features, the opening of a list of the minimum quantities of prohibited substances that can be tolerated. In particular, the concept of “contaminated source”, which replaces that of “contaminated product”. A broader terminology, which “includes sources of contamination such as food or drink, environmental contamination, or exposure through contact with a third person or an object touched by a third person.”
With the new rules there will no longer be a Sinner case
Precisely the assumption through “contact with a third person” can be traced back to the Sinner case, to the assumption of Clostebol through the massage of the physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi, who in turn had treated a wound with a spray given to him by the athletic trainer Umberto Ferrara, and containing the doping substance. Sinner is awaiting the ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) of Lausanne, which however will not arrive before next February. Last March, the world no.1 tested positive for Clostebol in very low quantities: 86 picograms per milliliter in the first test and 76 in the second.
From 1 January 2027, the Sinner case will therefore be treated like the one involving the Polish Iga Swiatek, world number 2, who tested positive for contamination of a legal product and was disqualified for a month because she was free from “significant fault or negligence”. .
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