New details: the real reason why Sinner accepted Doping’s sanction

Jannik Sinner It remained in the center of the scene with his case of Doping. On the one hand, there were those few who went out to support it and, on the other, those who strongly criticized the slight sanction (three months) and the differential treatment received for being No. 1 of the world. Now, in the last hours more details were known about how the agreement with the World anti -doping agency (Ama).

After he has surprised the speed with which everything was resolved, because there was a scheduled audience for mid -April, there was a question that fell due to decantation: what changed in the Italian of 23 years to modify his point of view that It seemed inflexible?

Jamie Singerthe lawyer of the last Australian Open champion, told the details of the negotiation. “When Jannik said: ‘Well, maybe we should accept three months,’ he replied: ‘Why would we do that if the first independent court determined that he should not receive any sanction? Why would I now accept three months?‘”, explained in a talk with the BBC. And he added:” My advice was:’ You never know what can happen at an audience. We know that Ama is pressing for a year; If we do not accept their offer, then they will go to court looking for that sanction and who knows what the three judges could decide. ‘ So the possibility of three months, in my opinion, was a good option. “

While Sinner and their entire team saw that the consequences of being standing for three months would not be excessively serious, since it would not be absent in any Grand Slam and the ATP 500 of Doha and Indian’s 1000 Masters of Indian Wells, Miami, Montecarlo and Madrid, on the AMA they accepted that the most convenient thing was to look for a point in common and avoid passing through the courts of the Deportivo Arbitration Court (TAS).

“This was a case that was one million kilometers to be considered intentional doping. The scientific evaluation we received indicated that this could not be intentional doping, not even microdosification,” said Ross Wenzel, a lawyer from the BBC. And he concluded: “I am not sure that a 12 -month sanction in this case, if we had forced the court to that decision, would have been a good result, because one would have committed an important principle of the code. And the other, in our opinion , it would have been excessively hard punishment. “

What was the reason that resulted in the sanction to Sinner? The one born in San Cándido, which will remain at the top of the ranking despite not being able to participate in international events for three months, had tested positive in Clostebol, an anabolic steroid that is used to improve sports performance. Without knowing it, Jannik had suffered transdermal contamination through the application of an aerosol in massages that the physiotherapist of that moment applied regularly.