Doping Cases and Bans in 2025

[Dragon 1,892]

  On 2/15/2025 at 10:20 AM, heywoodu said:

Dutch NOS headline today: "Long suspension for Sinner"  

 

 

 

What the actual text says: 3 months suspension, doesn't even miss a single Grand Slam  

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Billy Joel song "Only the Good Die Young" includes the lines;

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"

[Faramir 373]

Big money, good lawyers for the liar sinner - now back to South Tyrol Monaco to take some boosters in time for Roland-Garros.

[Makedonas 2,193]

Since when can you "reach an agreement" regarding a doping suspension? What a joke. Djokovic suffered more for not taking the vaccine than Sinner for failing two doping tests. There is no justice in this sport. A big shame.

 

I don't believe it was intentional but when others like Halep, Sharapova, Jarry were suspended for much longer and even Ymer for not even failing any tests, this seems so ridiculous in comparison.

[phelps 7,797]

  On 2/15/2025 at 7:16 PM, Makedonas said:

Since when can you "reach an agreement" regarding a doping suspension? What a joke. Djokovic suffered more for not taking the vaccine than Sinner for failing two doping tests. There is no justice in this sport. A big shame.

 

I don't believe it was intentional but when others like Halep, Sharapova, Jarry were suspended for much longer and even Ymer for not even failing any tests, this seems so ridiculous in comparison.

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please, stop making comparison between Sharapova and (above all) Halep's cases and this Sinner's farce 

 

this is just a political fight between WADA and ITIA and many other sports and political institutions

 

even WADA had to officially admit in a written statement that it's NOT about doping, but just an assumption of responsibility for other people in Sinner's staff

 

and it's so absurd that in fact they already changed the rules and a fact like this is no longer subject to any sanction

 

and this is a fact, independently of what people might think about the whole actual story behind all the things we know (I'm the first one to think that Sinner is not so "innocent", because I know very well the Clostebol history and usage)

 

 

but Sharapova and Halep were caught intentionally and consciously using banned substances. Point.

 

they are true cheaters that deserve any single day of their ban (actually, Halep used a medicine reserved only for people diagnosed with a fatal illness, available only in the oncological department of an hospital because of the enormous counter-indications it has for the people who have no other option but using it to save their life)

[copravolley 317]

  On 2/15/2025 at 7:16 PM, Makedonas said:

Since when can you "reach an agreement" regarding a doping suspension? What a joke. Djokovic suffered more for not taking the vaccine than Sinner for failing two doping tests. There is no justice in this sport. A big shame.

 

I don't believe it was intentional but when others like Halep, Sharapova, Jarry were suspended for much longer and even Ymer for not even failing any tests, this seems so ridiculous in comparison.

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Swiatek?

[copravolley 317]

  On 2/15/2025 at 8:18 PM, phelps said:

please, stop making comparison between Sharapova and (above all) Halep's cases and this Sinner's farce 

 

this is just a political fight between WADA and ITIA and many other sports and political institutions

 

even WADA had to officially admit in a written statement that it's NOT about doping, but just an assumption of responsibility for other people in Sinner's staff

 

and it's so absurd that in fact they already changed the rules and a fact like this is no longer subject to any sanction

 

and this is a fact, independently of what people might think about the whole actual story behind all the things we know (I'm the first one to think that Sinner is not so "innocent", because I know very well the Clostebol history and usage)

 

 

but Sharapova and Halep were caught intentionally and consciously using banned substances. Point.

 

they are true cheaters that deserve any single day of their ban (actually, Halep used a medicine reserved only for people diagnosed with a fatal illness, available only in the oncological department of an hospital because of the enormous counter-indications it has for the people who have no other option but using it to save their life)

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More suspicious to me is the Swiatek case and her short suspension- 1 month + the fact that the head of WADA is a Pole - Witold Banka...

[phelps 7,797]

  On 2/15/2025 at 8:24 PM, copravolley said:

More suspicious to me is the Swiatek case and her short suspension- 1 month + the fact that the head of WADA is a Pole - Witold Banka...

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I don't have enough infos about her case, so I just can't say anything

 

I can only hope that they ruled it correctly

[copravolley 317]

  On 2/15/2025 at 8:28 PM, phelps said:

I don't have enough infos about her case, so I just can't say anything

 

I can only hope that they ruled it correctly

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Just imagine their opinions if the head of WADA was an Italian...

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/15/2025 at 8:18 PM, phelps said:

please, stop making comparison between Sharapova and (above all) Halep's cases and this Sinner's farce 

 

this is just a political fight between WADA and ITIA and many other sports and political institutions

 

even WADA had to officially admit in a written statement that it's NOT about doping, but just an assumption of responsibility for other people in Sinner's staff

 

and it's so absurd that in fact they already changed the rules and a fact like this is no longer subject to any sanction

 

and this is a fact, independently of what people might think about the whole actual story behind all the things we know (I'm the first one to think that Sinner is not so "innocent", because I know very well the Clostebol history and usage)

 

 

but Sharapova and Halep were caught intentionally and consciously using banned substances. Point.

 

they are true cheaters that deserve any single day of their ban (actually, Halep used a medicine reserved only for people diagnosed with a fatal illness, available only in the oncological department of an hospital because of the enormous counter-indications it has for the people who have no other option but using it to save their life)

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Out of genuine curiosity: was the Errani thing with the cancer medicine that fell in the pasta sauce a political case as well (in your opinion, of course)?

[phelps 7,797]

  On 2/15/2025 at 8:54 PM, heywoodu said:

Out of genuine curiosity: was the Errani thing with the cancer medicine that fell in the pasta sauce a political case as well (in your opinion, of course)?

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no, that was just a true farce comparable to Paquillo Fernandez's or all the other improbable (to say the least) excuses I've read here and there through the years

 

I had to take care of my mom who had breast cancer first and then the fatal leukemia and I can tell you that it's absolutely impossible that she ended up with her mom's cancer medicines in her soup (or whatever it was)...there's no way you handle those things with such level of superficiality