Former world number one and winner of two Grand Slam tournaments Eugene Kafelnikov believes that athletes should be punished with lifetime disqualification for doping.
— There should be a lifetime ban for anyone caught using illegal drugs. No excuses and no tolerance, no matter who you are. The same rules and sanctions for everyone will do no good. Violators will find lawyers who will help them evade responsibility, as is the case now,” Kafelnikov wrote on the social network.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced on Thursday that world number two Iga Swiatek of Poland tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine in August. As a result, it was decided that there was no significant misconduct or negligence on the part of the athlete and she was suspended for one month.
In August, the ITIA announced that Italian world number one Jannik Sinner had two positive doping tests in March. He avoided disqualification because he proved that the substance clostebol entered his system by accident.
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