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Tested positive with clostebol, synthetic anabolic steroid, in March 2024, the US Open winner reached an agreement with the world Anti -doping Agency for a sentence of 3 months of suspension. He is about to resume competition this Wednesday, May 7 in Rome on Wednesday.
Long remained anonymous while he was working efficiently within the AFLD, Jean-Pierre Verdy, after having left a structure which no longer corresponded to his ambitions, entered the light during the exit of an exciting work (1). Ricco’s “fall” in the Pyrenees in 2008, and a strong link in the fall of Armstrong, returns for us on the Sinner affair.
Did Sinner take “expensive” or “cheap”?
It is light compared to the substance and the ordinary sportsmen who would be caught with this same substance … Anyone would have taken two years or three years in the same case.
Which would be very heavy if it is really “innocent”, as it advances …
Yes, but they still take a third party. It is the fiancée, it is the product that he has been administered without his own free will … They all take this excuse, this time it is his masseur but it is always the same strategy.
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It is better to have the means to embark on such a defense …
Yes, it costs a lot of money to the player but also to the international federation and the Ama, so often it is negotiated to avoid too long deadlines, expertise. The more powerful the sportsman, the more money and reservations behind it; And the more complicated it is.
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This fairly spectacular “negotiation” is rather surprising, right?
This is the first time. To my knowledge, transactions that take place directly between the sportsman taken and the AMA, it’s unprecedented. Is it going to be a case law; Will other athletes engage in this path?
The opposite would surprise us hard …
Here it is … But again it can only concern leading athletes of the leading, I think that the average athlete, at the national and even international level at a smaller level, they will put it in the niche immediately. This type of solution can only concern large …
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The world of tennis, do you know?
Yes everything manages in private; We made an showdown with the president of the International Federation. In Roland-Garros, we had the Châtenay-Malabry lab next to it but all the samples left for Montreal…
You have also checked Nadal …
I had the authorization to do so. As soon as he arrived I had him checked at the hotel, nothing was found. In Bercy Same, he had made a scandal because he was controlled; I had his uncle on the phone who insulted me. The federations do not really have access to the groups around players; It’s quite special, mission impossible to work on them with the police, the gendarmerie or customs …
(1) “My war against cheaters” / Arthaud
