World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Director General Olivier Niggli said the organization would organize a roundtable to discuss issues related to the Italian world number one’s doping cases. Jannik sinner and Polish tennis player Igi Schwiatek .
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced on Thursday that world number 2 Schwiatek had tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine in August. As a result, it was decided that the athlete had no significant culpability or negligence, she was suspended for a month and she had already served most of her sentence. In August, the ITIA announced that Sinner had tested positive for two drugs in March. He avoided disqualification because he proved that the banned substance, clostebol, entered his body by accident.
— There is a pollution problem today [проб]. This does not mean that there are more such cases than last year, just that laboratories have become more efficient at detecting even extremely low concentrations of the substance.
The quantities are so small that contamination can occur even if the athlete practices harmless activities. The truth is we hear many similar stories.
If we had thresholds, we wouldn’t see all these cases. We need to understand if we are ready to accept microdosing and where to stop. It is precisely to reflect on this that a round table will be organized”, quotes La Gazzetta dello Sport Niggli in reference to L’Equipe.
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