The World Anti-Doping Agency, Wada, has appealed to the court of arbitration for sport, CAS, against an independent tribunal’s decision in August to clear the men’s tennis world No 1 Jannik Sinner of wrongdoing after he failed drug tests
CAS to hear appeal against tribunal’s original decisionis facing the renewed threat of a ban after the World Anti-Doping Agency launched an appeal against a ruling of “no fault or negligence” for two positive tests he returned in March.
Sinner, who won the US Open earlier this month, twice tested positive for an anabolic steroid in March but on 20 Augustthe InternationalThe ITIA accepted Sinner’s explanation that the banned substance entered his body as a result of a massage from his physio, who had used a spray containing the steroid to treat a cut on their finger.has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking to impose a ban of up to two years on the 23-year-old Italian.
A statement from the agency said: “It is Wada’s view that the finding of ‘no fault or negligence’ was not correct under the applicable rules. Wada is seeking a period of ineligibility of between one and two years. “Wada is not seeking a disqualification of any results, save that which has already been imposed by the tribunal of first instance.”
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