Wada explains the difference in doping bans for sinners, Barquero

Madrid-Die World Anti-Doping agency On Monday, an explanation offered why Jannik Sinner, tennis player Jannik Sinner, received a much shorter doping ban than the six-year suspension that she was a Spanish figure skater in a similar doping case handed over.

Spanish media made aware of the lengthy ban of the local skater Laura Barquero after being tested positively on the anabolic closebol, the same substance that sinner brought in a three -month ban after a settlement between the Wada and the Italian tennis player was reached on Saturday . The deal was criticized this weekend by many of its tennis professionals.

Wada pointed out that both cases, although the same substance was considered, were “very different” for sinners.

“The fundamental difference between the two cases is that Ms. Barquero’s version, how the substance has entered her system, the Associated Press.” In contrast, the evidence in the case of sinners clearly confirmed the explanation of the athlete, as described in the first instance decision . “

At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Barquero tested for the first time on Clostebol, and then in January 2023 in a test tested by the International Skating Union. Wada finally completed a “case decision contract” in which the athlete was suspended for six years. The agreement was signed and signed by Wada, ISU and the athlete himself.

“If Ms. Barquero did not agree to the proposed sanction, she was not obliged to sign the case decision agreement, and it was free to advance the case for the hearing at CAS,” said Wada.

The agency had tried to ban Sinner, a three-time Grand Slam champion for at least a year. A decision last year had questioned the international tennis integrity agency not to suspend sinners for what the ITIA was a random contamination of the forbidden anabolic steroid in March last March.

Wada formally withdrew his attraction that he accepted the athlete’s explanation for the cause of the violation and that sinners did not intend to defraud.

The explanation of sinner was that trace quantities of the closebol in his doping test were due to a massage of a trainer who used the substance after cutting his own finger.

Barqueros Instagram account has released several stories that were drawn to the discrepancy in punishment and the sinner. She then posted a video about how her lengthy suspension had affected her.

“It is a disproportionate sanction that meant the end of my career,” she said. “I think it serves as a clear example of the failure of the system. I really don’t know what happened. But I have to accept the consequences that accept current regulations and are exposed to sanctions, which are sometimes extremely disproportionate.”

The 23-year-old Barquero said she decided to accept the six-year ban on the basis of “unfair rules”, so she could continue with her life.

She said that in its results, the lane quantities of the closes have appeared due to the contamination of a cream that is often used to treat skin wounds that are sold in Italy without a prescription and are not intended to improve sporting performance.

“I had the misfortune to accidentally contaminate with a cream that a colleague had bought and used by people near me,” she said. “I could not imagine that they would have to test positively what they have to do, is a person who used this cream or touch an object that was in contact with the cream.”