Tara Moore draws MURDER analogy to talk about plight of athletes suspected of doping amid Jannik Sinner doping case uproar
Tara Moore pointed out how athletes suspected of doping are not given defense attorneys while even suspects of murder get one.
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Jannik Sinner, Tara Moore (Images via BBC, The Independent)
British women’s doubles star Tara Moore has been expressing her disappointment about how Jannik Sinner‘s doping case was handled ever since it was made public. Moore, who has herself faced a ban for doping despite being acquitted of all the allegations and getting clearance because she did not bore any fault or negligence, has now highlighted the plight of athletes suspected of doping.
Moore drew an interesting murder analogy to explain her point. The Briton emphasized the fact that while suspects of murder are entitled to a defense attorney if they cannot afford one in any country, suspects of doping do not get any such help.
Moore made this comment amid the Professional Tennis Players Association’s (PTPA) demand for a legal defense fund for athletes. The PTPA, co-founded in 2019 by men’s tennis ace Novak Djokovic has put forward the demand that the four majors, the ATP Tour and WTA Tour should fund access to third-party lawyers, so financial resources are not a barrier to a speedy and authoritative defense.
Reacting to the same news, Moore shared a post on social media.
Whats wild is, if you are accused of MURDER in pretty much any country, you are still entitled to a defense attorney to help you even if you can’t afford one. Yet in anti-doping if you can’t afford a lawyer you just have to take a ban.
Tara Moore said
Whats wild is, if you are accused of MURDER in pretty much any country, you are still entitled to a defence attorney to help you even if you can’t afford one. Yet in anti-doping if you can’t afford a lawyer you just have to take a ban ??♀️ @ptpaplayers https://t.co/djf9RYVzzy
— Tara Moore (@TaraMoore92) October 15, 2024
Moore also clarified that she was not taking any digs at Jannik Sinner for getting preferential treatment but only highlighting the problem with the anti-doping system in sports.
PTPA Executive Director empathizes with Tara Moore
Tara Moore has been one of the biggest victims of the broken anti-doping system in sports. The Briton was her country’s leading women’s doubles player when she was provisionally banned for testing positive for nandrolone and boldenone in May 2022.
Although she was cleared by an independent tribunal in December 2023, 10 months later, she is still waiting for the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s (ITIA) appeal against that decision to be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). Talking about Moore’s case, PTPA executive director Ahmad Nassar highlighted the problem in the system.
I have many reservations about how every single one of those cases is handled. In Tara, here is a player who won her appeal, and certainly wasn’t the number one player in her sport, but she still missed 18 months. She’s still dealing with an appeal and fighting to get her reputation back. There is no winning in that case.
Ahmad Nassar said to BBC.
Nassar then pushed the idea that a legal defense fund must be set up and funded by the four Grand Slam tournaments and the two tours. He, however, denied PTPA’s involvement in the fund financially because he felt that it would be unfair considering the size and structure of the organization.
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