Throughout the media day of the Brisbane Worldwide, awaiting the debut of the brand new season, Novak Djokovic expressed his opinion on the controversial Jannik Sinner’s Clostebol doping scandal.
The Serbian champion, who didn’t query the correctness and protection of the ATP No.1 in the complete course of, contested how the affair was dealt with on the media degree and by the authorities, supporting – de facto – the phrases perpetuated by Nick Kyrgios in current months.
“It is not good, however on the identical time we dwell in a world the place everybody has the fitting to specific themselves, particularly on social media. Nick has been very vocal about the entire situation, and he is proper concerning the transparency and the inconsistency of the protocols, evaluating the circumstances which have been recorded. We have seen so many gamers, up to now and at present, suspended for not even having undergone the banned substance assessments and doping assessments. Some gamers who’re in decrease positions have been ready for his or her case to be resolved for over a 12 months,” stated Nole.
“I do not query whether or not he deliberately took the banned substance or not. I imagine in a clear sport, I imagine he did all the things he may to play truthful. I’ve identified Jannik since he was very younger, so I do not assume he’d do one thing like that. However I used to be actually pissed off, like most different tennis gamers, to see that we have been stored in the dead of night for 5 months after we bought that information. It was not postcard for our sport,” he added.
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And I utterly agree with Djokovic’s phrases, who accurately summarized the entire story. No one (or virtually no person) questions Jannik’s loyalty, however it’s clear that the Italian athlete can be chargeable for the negligence of his crew, whatever the quantity of doping substance that entered his physique.
And never solely that: it’s shameful how the story, with the assessments failed by Jannik final March in Indian Wells, got here out solely on August twentieth.
Moreover, it appears fairly evident that all the things was dealt with in a different way in comparison with different comparable circumstances as a result of Jannik is ATP No.1: that is why WADA is eager to take the state of affairs in hand to show how – no matter what occurred – the Italian participant deserves a trial and a attainable ban.
