The Polish Iga Swiatekworld number 2 and four-time champion at Roland Garros, was sanctioned with one month suspension for a copositive anti-doping control held in August, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) indicated this Thursday.
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“The ITIA confirms that Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension (…) after a positive test for a prohibited substance, the trimetazidinein a sample taken out of competition in August 2024“, the instance wrote in a statement. She accepted the player’s argument that it was due to “contamination of a medication.”
For this reason, the ITIA considered that “the player’s degree of fault” was “the weakest on the spectrum.”
This ad occurs a few months later of the case of number 1 in men’s tennis, Jannik Sinnerwho tested positive twice in March and was initially acquitted by the ITIA. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed and Sinner is now under threat of eventual suspension.
In the case of Swiatek (23 years old), trimetazidine would proceed of some traces present in melatonin that he took for sleep problems due to jet lagexplained the ITIA. The medicine in question was produced and sold in Poland.
The ITIA considered that “the violation” of the rules “was not intentional” and that is why it decided on that month of sanction. The tennis player would have practically already complied because she was provisionally suspended between September 12 and October 4, at the beginning of the procedure.
He already had a previous sanction
In those three weeks provisional suspension She was unable to participate in three tournaments on the Asian tour, including two in the WTA 1000 category, those in Beijing and Wuhan, both in China. He would only have eight days of suspension left to serve, which would be until December 4, the ITIA states.
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Like Sinner, Swiatek now risks that WADA may file an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). This would open the door for the case to be re-examined. The Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA) could also file such an appeal.
Until now, the ITIA did not make public Swiatek’s positive control “in accordance with the regulations” since the Polish tennis player had appealed his provisional suspension and he managed to have it raised at the time.
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