- Sinner tested positive for banned substance clostebol
- Tribunal ruled cream used on cut caused contamination
Jannik Sinner, the men’s world No 1 tennis player, has avoided a doping ban after he successfully argued that two failed anti-doping tests in March had been a result of contamination through his physiotherapist.
Following an independent tribunal last week, a panel ruled that Sinner bore “no fault or negligence” for twice testing positive for trace amounts of the banned substance clostebol. Clostebol is an anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) derived from testosterone and the concentrations of 121 picograms per millilitre (pg/ml) and 122pg/ml in Sinner’s two positive tests amount to less than a billionth of a gram. With over-the-counter drugs in Italy containing clostebol, numerous Italian athletes have tested positive for the substance in recent years.
Written by Tumaini Carayol
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