Sinner

strict liability i guess

he should count himself fortunate

now he's thrown his physio and fitness coach under the bus - what a champ

what a dumb post, he hasn't thrown anyone under the bus, he gave the correct information and Naldi, his phsyio has not contested the claims at all, now they've parted ways. You think he was going to sacrifice his entire career, reputation, family name and financial future to cover for some random, negligent physiotherapist and this is coming from someone who doesn't even like Sinner.

That aside the actual amount of the banned substance found in his system was ' less than a billionth of a gram', giving him virtually zero edge in any match, even the ITIA'a own legal expert accepted that the explanation was true.


Kind Regards.

You think he was going to sacrifice his entire career, reputation, family name and financial future to cover for some random, negligent physiotherapist

if it was all a mistake and the amount negligible then what has his staff done wrong that deserves sacking?

this is sinner trying to distance himself from the doping allegations. there's an issue with colstebol use in italian sport - and cahill's got form with halep

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c4gr8433527o

'Wada appeals against Sinner doping exoneration'

could still get ban ,

will be interesting to see if this will be playing on his mind until resolved. It has been speculated that his disappointing clay court season and withdrawal from the Olympics was due to this.

This will come to nothing, these WADA mugs want a 1-2 year suspension when he's already been cleared by an independent tribunal, at the same time have no interest in calling for him to be stripped of titles or prize money, they want to look good by landing a big fish who's been suspended, that's the headlines they want, that's how they'd justify their purpose to those that fund them.

Which incidentally includes all regional governments around the world, the biggest contributor is.....Europe, with nearly half their total government funding coming from this one continent (47.5%).

The levels found in his system were so low, WADA want sanctioning for wasting people's time. Were not so interested in the Chinese Swimmers were they, despite the lawyers excuses for them not going after them.

Drugs in tennis may be an issue from time to time, but it pales into insignificance when it comes to prevalence in the sport and  being a deciding factor in winning an losing in comparisons to other sports, i.e, endurance events such as Athletics, Cycling etc, swimming etc, it's minimum skill, maximum fitness. Taking drugs in Short and long distance running for example is the difference between gold and silver, massive sponsorship deals or not. In skilled sports such as Tennis, you can take the best drugs on the market but unless you have the skillset you are never going to make it to the top, a player like Sinner does not need to be taking drugs at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNY2P7xPy0A
Cool 25 min documentary about the Eurovision drama (Israel, not Joost) this year. Has English subtitles.

wrong thread sorry

Novak giving a press conference saying tennis has 'a system that is not working well', adding 'Even people who are not following our sport, are realising there are way too many inconsistencies and way too many governing bodies involved'.
Source Guardian, video here
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2024/oct/02/djokovic-argues-sinner-doping-case-is-not-helping-tennis-video