Athletistic / Tennis. The world’s fifth-ranked racket, Russian Daniil Medvedev, commented on the sensational story of the doping case of Italian Jannik Sinner. Earlier it became known that the athlete had passed a positive doping test, but avoided disqualification. The control body believed that the banned substance had entered the body of the world’s first racket from an ointment for the cut, used by his physiotherapist.

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“I believe that only Yannick himself knows what happened there. No one knows the truth except him, his team and, possibly, an independent tribunal.

I hope that such situations will be the same for every player, every player will be able to protect himself. What he did was in accordance with the rules. But the rules are a bit vague.

At the same time, this moment scares me a little bit in doping cases. Sinner knew what happened, he was great at being able to defend himself. But if you don’t know how doping happened, you will be suspended. This is the hardest part, but these are the anti-doping rules. I just hope that all players will be treated the same way,” Medvedev said at a press conference.



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