Doping in Sport - Bi-Weekly Press round-up #125
Sinner's physio was required to avoid inadvertent doping cases in previous role, another tennis player tests positive and Lance Armstrong's ghostwriter is interviewed.
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In case you missed it on Friday, I published a new investigation on the world number one tennis player Jannik Sinner’s clostebol case. I revealed that at least one of his ex-physio’s former athletes was already aware of a contamination case involving clostebol in 2022. “As a member of the club’s ‘medical staff’ and a contracted ‘employee’, Naldi was obliged to follow the Virtus Bologna ‘Code of Ethics’ and in doing so prevent the club’s players from involuntarily using prohibited substances,” (link). Jotdown reported on the story in an article titled ‘New revelations about the Jannik Sinner case reveal the inconsistencies of his excuses’ (link).