Jannik Sinner, now Wada plays a new card

Wada plays a new card

The Wada is not letting up on the Jannik Sinner issue. From Montreal, headquarters of the agency, it lets it know that it considers "the case still open and the investigation ongoing" on the basis of a subsection of Article 13.2 of the Anti-Doping Code (13.2.3.5, which is reserved only for the international anti-doping agency and not, for example, Nado Italia) that allows it to start counting down the 21-day appeal deadline from the moment it has received additional documentation on the case specifically requested from Itia, the independent agency that adjudicates doping cases in tennis: è what we read in Corriere della Sera. 

Wada therefore confirms that it was not satisfied with the nearly 50 detailed pages of the ruling and that it asked for specific insights, but will not disclose on what date it received (or if it received) the requested documentation.  Therefore, it is not possible to know for sure when the new deadline to appeal will expire.

Contacted in the afternoon by the via Solferino newspaper, James Fitzgerald, Wada spokesman, confirmed that "Wada is still reviewing the documentation on the Sinner case received from Itia to decide whether to appeal. The time limit è of 21 days from the receipt of the documentation, which from us è arrived last week". Whether the case è definitively closed will still take days.