Arthur Cazaux suggests it might be significantly better if everyone targeted on their very own careers as an alternative of placing an excessive amount of power into debating the Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek doping circumstances because the Frenchman highlights there’s in all probability no strategy to ever get a definitive and clear reply on what actually occurred.
Over the past couple of months, there was extra deal with another issues than the precise tennis. After it was introduced that the top-ranked ATP participant failed two doping checks however that his case was dealt with in darkish earlier than it was decided that he “bore no fault or negligence” for what occurred, some had questions and that additionally led to quite a few conspiracy theories and double requirements.
As if that wasn’t sufficient, one other high-profile doping scenario occurred after the ITIA revealed in late November that Swiatek examined optimistic for trimetazidine (TMZ). That case additionally secretly dealt with – however in contrast to within the Sinner case – the five-time Grand Slam champion was suspended for a couple of weeks earlier than accepting a one-month ban.
However one factor was the identical as within the Italian’s case – the Pole began listening to that she was handled in a different way and that she prevented a harsher sanction solely as a result of she was one of many highest within the recreation. The double commonplace claims and conspiracy theories weren’t made solely by followers but additionally by some gamers.
Nevertheless, 22-year-old Cazaux would not belong in that group – and never solely that – he would not even wish to suppose or talk about ti an excessive amount of.
“How do I expertise it? I do not actually care about others. If he was doped at the moment or not, I do not care, I deal with myself, I wish to be the perfect participant potential and I keep away from taking a look at what is going on on subsequent door. I can perceive that it causes individuals to speak within the sense that if we all know that she or he was suspended for one or two months and that there are gamers who have not examined optimistic and who’ve simply missed anti-doping checks, as a result of you must know that in case you miss three checks in a single yr, you are suspended and there are a number of gamers who’ve been suspended for a number of years regardless that they weren’t essentially doped,” Cazaux mentioned throughout his look on FT Sports activities, as revealed on We Love Tennis.
When it particularly involves conspiracy theories, the 22-year-old merely famous that even when one thing murky occurred there, it might by no means come to mild.
“So I can perceive that it causes individuals to speak at that degree. I am not right here to get into the debates, ‘Are they doped and guarded?’ I do not know and we’ll by no means know anyway. I feel it is higher to deal with your self,” the world No. 63 added.
Swiatek was very passionate in defending herself: ‘As if somebody died…’
The day the ITIA introduced the information relating to her case, the 23-year-old posted an Instagram video, by which she claimed that she did not even know what TMZ.
Then a few days in the past, the WTA world No. 2 mentioned that she immediately fell into the state of panic after being knowledgeable a couple of failed doping take a look at as she “cried quite a bit” to the purpose that her group needed to every thing they may to calm her down. Later, she was informed by her group that she reacted as if somebody died.
“My response was very violent. It was a combination of incomprehension and panic. There was quite a lot of crying. We get a notification by e mail and by textual content message when there’s a drawback or when we have to full one thing within the paperwork. I opened the e-mail and thought it was a notification that gamers robotically get once they should do one thing,” Swiatek informed Anita Werner on Fakty po Faktach on TVN24.
“However this time it turned out that the e-mail was way more critical. Typically, I wasn’t in a position to learn it to the top, as a result of I used to be already drenched in tears. My managers mentioned that my response was as if somebody had died or one thing critical had occurred to my well being. I’m glad I wasn’t alone, as a result of I used to be in a position to hand them the cellphone and present them what occurred.”
In her first message, the Pole additionally mentioned that it was “the hardest battle” of her profession and pleaded to followers and most people to not change their opinions about her as a result of she didn’t and would by no means do something unlawful.
Sadly for Swiatek, her explanations did not finish the talks surrounding her doping case however a very powerful factor for her stays the truth that the ITIA dominated that she “bore no important fault or negligence” for what occurred.
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