Imagine the top player in any other sport being popped for steroids and it not being made immediately public?
Just doesn’t happen.
This part of the story is what pissed off a lot of people in the sport.
Eventually an independent tribunal ruled that Sinner was not at fault and required no further suspension.
That’s when this was all made public, during the tour’s tournament in Cincinnati last August.
Then they found no wrong doing on top of that, despite the positive tests.
Jannik would go onto win Cincinnatti as well as the US Open and the year end ATP Finals.
Just recently he took home his third career slam at the Aussie Open.
He’s a bonafide monster on the court, but this dark cloud continued to hang over his head.
When that got announced I felt it was unfair to everyone involved to wait that long.
Agreeing to miss three months came with the compromise that he’s still innocent of any wrongdoing or cheating.
It’s essentially the most convenient suspension of all time.
Here’s how some of the tour reacted to the news.
Dude basically agreed to take a three month vacation to make this all go away.
It’s unfortunately impossible to know if Sinner intentionally used this steroid or not.
What kind of innocence results in a three month suspension?
If he’s innocent why should he get anything?
All of it is a mess and doesn’t make good for the sport in anyway.
