‘Sympathetic’ Daniil Medvedev finds WADA’s demand for ban on Jannik Sinner ‘tricky’
Daniil Medvedev understands what Jannik Sinner has been going through after WADA's appeal to CAS for a ban.
Daniil Medvedev, Jannik Sinner (Images via X)
Daniil Medvedev commented on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) decision to approach the Court of Arbitration of Sports (CAS) demanding a ban on Jannik Sinner. The Italian, who was acquitted of two failed drug tests after an investigation by an independent tribunal, is once again at the center of controversy after WADA’s appeal.
This has once again divided the tennis community. Carlos Alcaraz was asked during a China Open press conference what he thinks of the situation about which he stated that he understands what Sinner has been going through. Medvedev is also of the same opinion as he said that, like Alcaraz, he too is “sympathetic” to Sinner as the situation itself is a “tricky” one.
For me, imagine tomorrow you get an email, because I think it’s an email, you fail your doping test. They say for whatever reason, like cocaine or some drug you don’t even know the name of. You’re like, wow, what am I doing now because I have no idea how it happened that it’s in my pee, blood, whatever. So, yeah, it’s a tricky situation.
Daniil Medvedev said at the press conference
Medvedev is in Beijing for the China Open and has reached the semifinals. He will face Alcaraz on October 1.
Jannik Sinner’s lawyer says WADA’s appeal was unnecessary
Jannik Sinner‘s lawyer Jamie Singer thinks WADA’s interference in the doping case was unnecessary. Singer feels WADA believes the 23-year-old is somehow responsible for what his team members did by mistake. WADA has to submit its appeal brief to CAS by October 10.
We are all aware that WADA has the full right to take this action, appealing to its possibilities, and we know how complicated the work of monitoring doping and the integrity of the world of sport is. Having said that, we believe that the appeal was really unnecessary.
Jamie Singer told Gazzetta dello Sport
Sinner tested positive for an anabolic steroid called clostebol in March this year. The samples collected during and after the Indian Wells showed low levels of the drug. His fitness trainer purchased a spray from Italy and gave it to the physio who used it to treat a cut on his finger. The physio massaged Sinner without gloves, which caused the contamination.
Sinner later parted ways with the trainer and physio and in spite of dealing with the controversy, he won the US Open and is playing the China Open to defend his title.
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