The coach of Belarusian tennis player Arina Sabalenka, Anton Dubrov, believes that the situation with the positive doping tests of the Italian world number one Jannik sinner indicates the lack of transparency in the process of reviewing such cases.
In August, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced that Sinner had tested positive for two drugs in March. The athlete avoided disqualification because he proved that the banned substance, clostebol, entered his body by accident. On Saturday, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced that it had appealed the ITIA’s decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on September 26.
— The first reaction to all headlines about doping controls is shock. Then you look closely and they write down about a billionth dose per gram. I didn’t quite understand how this could compare to how the substance could end up [в организме]. It is clear that the percentage found is catastrophically low – it is practically zero.
The only question is not addressed to them, but to those who led the debates: it is possible that this is very poorly communicated. [информация] to other people. Perhaps they do not have such abilities: here the exam lasted several days, they worked well and quickly. This is probably how it should be, true, if everything is proven. But at the same time, there are people who have been involved in proceedings for years, and they may be acquitted, but they will lose a year and a half. The question of examining all appeals is extremely opaque. But personally, I have no questions about the team itself and about Yannick, ”Dubrov said at the Championship.
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