JThe most explosive doping case of tennis is over sports law, and Jannik Sinner can be very satisfied. The Italian world ranking listen has to serve a lock by the beginning of May, but it is the time of the season when it bothers him the least. At the first Grand Slam of 2025, the Australian Open, he was still allowed to play (and won); In time for the second Grand Slam, the French Open, he is entitled to play again. He does not lose prize money and world ranking points retrospectively either. So then: time for a few chilled months, and then rested in Paris against the competition hired by the Masters tournaments.
A few years ago it was blown up how the professionals are in tennis sports could choose the time windows for blood tests in advance. Now the data of the doping locks are also bent so that the athletes can come to terms with it. What do the supposedly so strict anti-doping instances of sport not do so that the athletes also feel comfortable!
:Winner with asterisks and massive footnote
At the Australian Open, no opponent has a chance against Jannik Sinner, also Alexander Zverev in the final. But with all the serenity and dominance of the tournament winner, the debate about his doping case continues.
In the Sinner case, it smells of a sloping deal that the World Anti-Doping Agency Wada came up with. A few months ago, she clearly formulated that after the two Clostebol findings in the 23-year-old, she was acquitted by the responsible person Tennis instance did not accept and a lock of one to two years. Now she bends and withdraws her objection to the International Sports Court (CAS). The reason: she believes that the athlete did not want to cheat and that the forbidden substance had reached his body unintentionally during a massage. But because according to the anti-doping code of the athletes, the responsibility for the actions of his environment always bears, there is still three months of lock, the Sinner is now accepting.
All of this fits the sloping process of the whole case: because only Sinners had been kept secret for a long time. Then the Italian played for months under the impression of the ongoing procedure. And now there is this extrajudicial agreement, which once again ends a doping case in tennis with a marginal punishment. The CAS sports court is certainly not the last conclusion of sports law wisdom and right to sports law. But in this case it would have been welcome if the highest court in the sports world had looked at the case again; Also the lecture by Sinner’s party, how the forbidden substance could only get into the athlete body because his physiotherapist used a closebol-containing medication to heal his own wound. And then at the end of the CAS negotiation, a longer, harder sanction could have been-or a complete acquittal.
Strikingly often, top athletes can be heard from it
The latter would then have been a embarrassment for the Wada. Instead, this can now be shown in one of her favorite roles: as the organization, which is almost arbitrary on doping questions and around. And in sports there is great outcry that the anti-doping system makes a top athlete get away again. It was only last year that the Polish tennis player and the former world ranking IGA Swiatek easily survived a positive test for trimetacid. She pushed him on a contaminated medication for jet lag – a month of lock was enough for it, and this time was also divisioned so that Swiadek could play at the WTA finals. A few years ago, the cycling professional and four-time tour winner Christopher Froome were initially closed due to an increased salbutamol value, but was again classified as entitled to the tour of the Tour de France with great stretching of the paragraphs.
The cutting of doping barriers that are precisely precisely preceded by it is obvious. And who knows what the Wada and the other anti-doping instances still have in store when a top professional from cycling gets a four-year lock because the facts are not allowed any other way? The code is certain that this is always closed for the largely competitive period from November to February for twelve years and the rest of the year – of course under strict supervision and regularly checked! – continue to fight for victories.
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