The doping scandal involving the world’s top tennis player was kept under wraps for five months and went unpunished
The news would have caused a global shock in the sports world if it had been published in time: the world’s top tennis player Yannick Sinner, whose name means “sinner”, was caught doping. He did learn, but with a delay of five months. And with a critical footnote: “His explanations were deemed satisfactory, so the athlete will not be punished.” Those who have been burned in the porridge or yogurt raised their voices, denouncing double standards. The proponents of double standards and stations burst out laughing. Big Shiner dons his earplugs and goes down undaunted tomorrow in the battle of the US Open.
The substance in question, a regular anabolic, is called clostebol and is the same one that has been detected in a number of Italian athletes in recent years. “It is contained in ointments and other painkillers that are sold freely and without a prescription in pharmacies” claim the stigmatized in a dance. A trace amount was found in Shiner’s urine: 121 pg/mL on March 10 and 122 pg/mL on March 18. Yes, there were two positive tests of the young man. Not one. Eight days apart.
“Even if taking the drug was intentional, it wouldn’t do him any good,” emphasizes the professor David Cowanformerly head of the WADA-accredited laboratory in London. Cowan was one of three scientists to testify at the independent tribunal in the Shiner case. “This quantity does not mean doping or performance improvement.”
He threw them at the masseur
The likeable Shiner invoked his earlier honest life and blamed his physiotherapist, Giacomo Naldi. According to the memorandum handed in by the Italian tennis player, Naldi bought on March 3 the “guilty” Trofodermin spray to spray on hacks he carried on his body. In Naldi’s own body and not Shiner’s. In the days that followed, the physiotherapist repeatedly massaged his athlete with his bare hands, without gloves. And that’s how the anabolic got into the body of Shiner, who suffers from psoriasis on his feet.
The 23-year-old tennis player was caught high on clostebol during the Indian Wells days and again on the eve of the Miami Open. Both times he was warned not to compete because his (AAF) “uncertain sample” automatically puts him in temporary quarantine. Both times he served the above apparently improbable explanation, with the procedure of urgency. Both times he was pardoned before the 24-hour mark, so he raced normally. Both times the scandal was kept secret. The doping of this year’s Australian Open winner was announced on August 20, immediately after he was acquitted by the Tennis Integrity Organization, the notorious ITIA. And of course there was an uproar.
Loud reactions
“This is ridiculous, he was caught doping twice and he has to eat a two-year ban” the unrestrained raged Nick Kyrgios. “Double standards, as usual” protested Denis Shapovalov. “The excuse may be believable, but the manipulations carry a lot of water,” he wrote in his post Sandgren Tennis. Twitter users recalled that the Jenson Broxby and the Michael Immer are serving months-long sentences for evading WADA inspectors, while the 32-year-old Tara Moorewho saw her career destroyed by a similar affair, took to the trenches.
“The image of the top players puts them on fire, while we small fish are thrown to the sharks,” said England’s Moore, who was punished with a 19-month ban for being caught with dope contained in “contaminated” meat. We remind you that – according to information – the same excuse was invoked, among dozens of others, by our Helen Pollack.
Because fear guards the desert, Shiner cited injury and pulled out of the Paris Olympics, and was forced to return the premium he won in Indian Wells (€360,000), where his appearance this year disappeared from the official records and his points were cancelled. “I believe that famous players are protected” she confessed Chris Evert of 18 Grand Slams from the side of the ESPN commentator. “When I say protection I mean the secrecy of the procedures. Scandals stay in the dark for two or three months and come to light when the danger passes.”
The serious incident of the famous Simona Halep she was locked in the closet by CAS, which accepted the athlete’s “diminished responsibility” and reduced the original sentence of a four-year ban to a nine-month ban. The not so distant 2016 h Maria Sharapova fell into too soft: 15 months on the shelf.
WILLIAM and the independent disciplinary body accepted that Shiner’s case was unintentional and gave him a clean chit in the tennis community. WADA and the Italian anti-doping authority retain the right of appeal, but it is thought unlikely that they will do so.
Same essence, different luck
In Italy, four tennis players (Bortolotti, Paoletti, Tamaro, Battalino) tested positive for the substance clostebol that was detected in Sinner’s urine. The first two were acquitted, the others were punished with two to four years, but all went through the mandatory process of temporary exclusion. Shiner, again, no. “I leave behind me this difficult and unfortunate period,” he declared. “From now on I will be more careful, me and my staff.” The multi-talented Italian remains at number 1 in the world rankings, ahead of Paris finalists Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz.
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