On Thursday, the ITIA introduced that the Polish tennis star failed a doping take a look at in August after testing optimistic trimetazidine (TMZ). Within the assertion, it was defined that it occurred whereas utilizing a melatonin medicine manufactured and offered in Poland that the 23-year-old used for jet lag and sleep points.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) November 29, 2024
In March, ATP world No. 1 Jannik Sinner twice failed a doping take a look at however did not get any suspension after he was cleared of bearing any fault or negligence for what occurred. After one other main title failed a doping take a look at, ATP participant Benjamin Lock was left shocked.
“1 month ban. It’s not even April fools day. Don’t play with us like that. Two number 1s in the world failing drug tests in the same year is wild,” the South African wrote.
Responding to him, Kyrgios stated: “OUR SPORT IS COOKED.”
OUR SPORT IS COOKED 😴😭 https://t.co/bHa9cLjxAM
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) November 28, 2024
After one fan said that “they think we are all stupid,” the 2022 Wimbledon finalist sarcastically stated: “No they both just didn’t know.”
No they each simply didn’t know 😂
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) November 28, 2024 Kyrgios: We will all simply say we did not know…
In Sinner’s case, it was defined {that a} prohibited substance entered his after his former physio Giacomo Naldi used over-the-counter spray to deal with a minimize. Now, Swiatek additionally failed a doping take a look at after unkowingly utilizing a medicine that occurred to be contaminated with a banned substance.
And Kyrgios seemingly thinks the highest gamers can principally get away with sure stuff by simply saying “they didn’t know.”
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“The excuse that we are able to all use is that we didn’t know. Merely didn’t know. Professionals on the highest stage of sport can now simply say “we didn’t know,'” one fan wrote.
The excuse that we can all use is that we didn’t know. Simply didn’t know. Professionals at the highest level of sport can now just say “we didn’t know” 👏
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) November 29, 2024
In one other put up, Kyrgios sarcastically predicted that there can be no world No. 1’s failing a doping take a look at in 2025.
Denis Shapovalov did not say a lot nevertheless it wasn’t arduous to grasp that he had questions after Swiatek was banned for only one month.
“1 month ban eh,” the Canadian wrote on X.
A Sinner fan account responded: In the future somebody will clarify to Shapovalov what “No Significant Fault or Negligence” means particularly in instances of contamination. However I genuinely start to imagine that he’s too silly to grasp.”
Kyrgios fired back: “What does prohibited always imply?”
What does prohibited always imply?
— Nicholas Kyrgios (@NickKyrgios) November 29, 2024 The ITIA and Swiatek statements
“The ITIA accepted that the optimistic take a look at was attributable to the contamination of a regulated non-prescription medicine (melatonin), manufactured and offered in Poland that the participant had been taking for jet lag and sleep points, and that the violation was due to this fact not intentional. This adopted interviews with the participant and their entourage, investigations, and evaluation from two WADA-accredited laboratories,” the ITIA said.
“In relation to the participant’s stage of fault, because the contaminated product was a regulated non-prescription medicine within the participant’s nation of origin and buy and contemplating all of the circumstances of its use (and different contaminated product instances below the World Anti-Doping Code), the participant’s stage of fault was thought-about to be on the lowest finish of the vary for ‘No Significant Fault or Negligence.'”
In her message, Swiatek said “historically lowest levels of trimetazidine” were found in her sample. Also, she said she was “shocked” and didn’t even know what was that.
“On September 12, I learned that my anti-doping test sample, collected on August 12 before the Cincinnati tournament, was positive. It was a blow for me, I was shocked and this whole situation made me very anxious. At first I couldn’t perceive how that was even doable and the place it had come from. It seems testing revealed traditionally lowest ranges of trimetazidine, a substance I’ve by no means heard about earlier than. I don’t suppose I even knew it existed. I’ve by no means encountered it, nor did folks round me,” the Pole said.
After the US Open, Swiatek missed the Asian swing. At the time, it was listed as “as a result of private causes” but now it is revealed that it happened because she was provisionally suspended.
