Clostebol case, Wada gives Jannik Sinner hope

Clostebol case, Wada gives Jannik Sinner hope

The first, unpleasant chapter of Jannik Sinner’s career should come to a close in February, as the Tas will issue the final verdict on the Clostebol case after the world number 1 was acquitted and Wada appealed.

The news of Iga Swiatek’s one-month suspension has reopened the debate on anti-doping rules that, in the case of the world No. 2 polaccanumber and Sinner, prove to be far too restrictive even in the case of minimal or even unconscious intake of banned substances.

"There is a contamination problem today. This does not mean that there are more such cases than in the past, the fact è that laboratories are more efficient in detecting even infinitesimal amounts of substance", said Olivier Niggli, director general of Wada, interviewed by L'Equipe.

"The quantities" are so small that one can contaminate oneself by doing harmless things. The truthè è that we hear a lot of stories and I understand public opinion that may come to think that we assume anything”, he continued in the interview reported by Adnkronos.

For Niggli, one could therefore rethink the anti-doping system in professional tennis, and his statements give Sinner hope: "With thresholds we would not have seen all these cases. What we need to understand è whether we are ready to accept microdosing and where it is right to stop. It is precisely for these kinds of reflections that a working table" will be created.