WTA > Andy Roddick on the Swiatek affair: “I can’t call it doping. Are we going to continue to rely on tests that detect doses of a billionth of a gram of something”

The former American player puts the church back in the center of the village regarding the Swiatek affair.

Unlike former work colleagues like Kafelnikov, Andy defends the Polish player.

These somewhat crude comments have the advantage of raising the real debate, that of the tiny doses detected by the tests carried out by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

« I can’t call it doping. It’s just taking melatonin for jet lag at 2:30 a.m. in Cincy. It’s just unfortunate for her, obviously. A negative test in Paris at the Olympic Games, negative tests in New York. So this is not a recurring problem. It just sucks because the headlines will say that people, the stupidest people in our sport, “Ah, doping!” » I have already taken melatonin. Who is to say that ours were not contaminated and we will continue to rely on tests which detect doses of a billionth of a gram of something or contaminated melatonin which had no positive effect on performance »

Published on Thursday December 5, 2024 at 08:50