The national tennis player has already served his sentence, after pledging to enroll in a substance abuse program. Therefore, you can now compete again.
A few days ago, El Deportivo reported the positive for marijuana that the national tennis player Bastián Malla showed, during a doping control carried out in the last Santiago Challenger, disputed in the second week of March. The International Tennis Integrity Agency in charge of the fight against doping in this sport since this year, confirmed an initial sentence of three months, but with the possibility of being reduced to one, if he agrees to submit to a drug program.
“The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) has confirmed that Bastián Malla, a 26-year-old Chilean tennis player, has accepted a charge under the 2022 Tennis Anti-Doping Program (TADP) for the presence of cannabis . The player has been suspended from tennis for a period of one month, on the condition that he completes an ITIA-approved treatment program “said the entity.
“The player admitted the anti-doping rule violation and stated that his consumption was not related to sports performance, which was accepted by the ITIA” he added, while specifying the sanctions for this fault, which until a few years ago was punished very rigorously.
Likewise, the London-based entity specifies that the player can now compete again. “The one-month suspension period began on the date of the player’s voluntary provisional suspension and ended on Friday, May 6, 2022. date on which the ITIA informed him that he could return to tennis if he had successfully completed the treatment programme. If you do not meet these conditions, you will be subject to two additional months of disqualification. »
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