Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
If you call getting a couple of weeks off out of season punishment.
The Tennis Thread
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Arthur Wedge
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They served bans - Sinners was for 3 months and the substance wasn’t at any level for performance enhancing
Bunkermagnet
Journeyman Pro
It was still a banned substance.
Ergo he is a drugs cheat, now and always.
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
It is possible for someone to be contaminated without their knowledge
It’s like when Alain Baxter was banned using a Vicks inhaler
WADA statement
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Wada had felt the independent tribunal should have punished Sinner for strict liability - that he was ultimately responsible for failing the two drugs tests.
However, it also accepted that Sinner "did not intend to cheat", that the drug "did not provide any performance-enhancing benefit" and this happened "without his knowledge as the result of negligence of members of his entourage". On this basis, it was prepared to reach a settlement with Sinner, rather than go to Cas where the outcome would have either been a ban of at least a year or Sinner being cleared.
"This was a case that was a million miles away from doping," Wada's general counsel Ross Wenzel told BBC Sport.”
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Agreed. People seem to see that he copped a ban and jump to conclusions, but I really don't believe he knew anything about it and was just unlucky.
Clearly an unbelievable player nonetheless. It looks very much like the next generation is going to be a 'big two' and then and drop to the rest.
Mandofred
Well-known member
Kind of wondering why the drug was banned if there was no performance enhancing benefit......
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
As with a lot of medicines it will depend on the levels used
Some cold and flu remedies have substances in them which at high levels can be performance enhancing
The list of medicines ( over the counter ) that my wife gets from England hockey is vast
