Novak Djokovic broke his silence on doping bench n ° 1 Jannik Sinner is confronted.
The sinner was to come before the Arbitration Court for Sport in April, after the world anti-doping appealed to the decision of the integrity tennis agency to erase it with any blamed for two failed tests Last March.
On Saturday morning, it was announced that the sinner had agreed with the Wada to accept a three -month suspension, essentially a regulation outside the court.
If such a ban had been issued in April, she would have put Italian to the French Open and Wimbledon. By starting the ban now, the sinner will not miss either. He will just come back in time for his home event, the Italian Open.
It was one of the most tamed Salvos in the world of tennis. Nick Kyrgios, chief antagonist of the sinner throughout the saga, said on X: “Obviously, the Sinner team did everything in their power to take a three -month ban. Guilty or not? Sad day for tennis. Equity in tennis does not exist.
Djokovic, who is now one of the rivals of Sinner, but at the opposite end of his career, has spoken of the ban that the Italian is now confronted.
Novak Djokovic (left) broke his silence on the world 1 of Jannik Sinner (right).
The sinner agreed with Wada to accept a three -month suspension, which means that he will not miss the Open of France or Wimbledon
Djokovic revealed that he had spoken to a number of other players, who “believe that there was a favoritism”
“I spoke with several players in the locker room,” said Djokovic. “Not only in recent days but also in previous months. Most of them are not satisfied with the way the whole process has gone, and they don’t think it’s just. Many of them believe that there was a favoritism.
“We have seen the cases of Simona Halep and Tara Moore, and other players perhaps less known, who have difficulties for years to resolve their cases, or who have been suspended for a long time.
“I think it’s really time to do something and contact the system, because it is clear that the structure does not work like this.
“So yes, it’s incoherent and it seems very unfair to me, and that’s all I have to say about it. We will see what is happening in the near future, if the whole case will attract more attention and can shed light on other cases of lower level players. And we have to keep in mind that the sinner and swiatek, at the time, were n ° 1 in the world.
An AMA press release announcing the news said: “The AMA accepts that Mr. Sinner did not intend to cheat and that his exposure to Clostebol has provided no advantage of performance improvement and had place without his knowledge following the negligence of the members of his entourage.
“However, under the code and under the previous case, an athlete is responsible for the negligence of the entourage.”
So why did the AMA accepted this regulation, when they said that this month, they were looking for one to two years? For them, the duration of the prohibition is less important than to strengthen the mantra than an athlete is responsible for what enters his body, in particular when this substance has been administered, as unconsciously, by a member of his own team .
In addition, a three -month ban is in the stage of what most tennis initiates thought it was probably. The cases have shown a tendency to find common ground in most cases of appeal: neither a complete acquittal nor a heavy prohibition seemed likely.
The sinner said that the case was “ drag on him for years ” before the ban on the ban
ITIA and WDA both accept its explanation that the steroid entered its system during a massage, via a spray applied to the finger of its old physio.
“This case had been suspended from me for almost a year,” said Sinner in a statement.
“I have always admitted that I am responsible for my team and that I realize that the strict rules of Wada are an important protection for the sport that I like.
“On this basis, I accepted the AMA offer to resolve these procedures on the basis of a 3 -month penalty.”
