Daniil Medvedev narrowly prevented ban as Wimbledon star speaks out on medicine exams
Daniil Medvedev has opened up on the brutal actuality of anti-doping exams in tennis after fellow participant Jenson Brooksby was provisionally suspended for being accused of lacking three exams. The world No 3 revealed that he was one strike away from additionally being banned whereas explaining how simple it was to overlook a take a look at.
22-year-old Brooksby just lately introduced that he had accepted a provisional suspension after being accused of lacking three medicine exams beneath the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s whereabouts system. Players should present their location for an hour a day every single day of the yr for potential random exams.
Under the anti-doping guidelines, it means a participant might be penalised with out having offered a optimistic take a look at if they’ve clocked up three “whereabouts failures” in a 12-month interval. In Brooksby’s case, the world No 101 denies any wrongdoing and is ready for an arbitration enchantment with an impartial tribunal, telling AP that accepting the suspension isn’t an request for forgiveness.
Medvedev has now shared his personal expertise with the whereabouts programme and revealed that he was on two strikes for a very long time, leaving him liable to being suspended like Brooksby if he missed a 3rd medicine take a look at in that point interval.
“Tough to answer. I think anti-doping generally in sports is a good thing. We need it because never know who cheats, who doesn’t,” the 27-year-old mentioned after his second-round win at Wimbledon.
He continued: “The side effect of this is that sometimes you see players in the locker room, then you have stories like many players, I don’t even going to say names. Then you see they have, like, maybe I’m not sure exactly what I’m saying, but five milligrams of one prohibited substance, where even anti-doping in some cases says this couldn’t affect your performance.
“This could be maybe protein shake, who knows, water you drink, for whatever reason it’s there. For sure it’s a pity if you didn’t do anything. I can imagine this happening. Didn’t do nothing all your life, then you get a positive result. You know you’re probably going to be out for one, two years. You’re like, ‘Wow, I haven’t done anything.’ At the same time probably someone has done anything. Yeah, it is what is. You have to be very careful.”
Medvedev has had his personal points utilizing the Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) system – a World Anti-Doping Agency platform that gamers use to log their whereabouts. “Regarding Brooksby case, I didn’t see in details, but what I heard from my coaches, he says they didn’t knock on the right door and something like this,” he mentioned.
“I myself had one time two missed tests. It was the first year I was on the ADAMS system. It’s not easy. I don’t know. Imagine you’re not married and you decide to sleep at your girlfriend who’s one hour away from your home, and you decide last moment. You forget to change the time slot. One missed test. Three can get pretty fast.”
The 2021 US Open champion is now regimented to make sure that he doesn’t threat coming near a suspension once more. But he defined that even one thing so simple as a doorbell or intercom failing might price a participant one strike.
He added: “I had two for a long time. I made sure I’m not going to miss one more. It’s not going to be possible that I’m going to miss one more. Since then I don’t think I have ever missed one.
“I can imagine your interphone doesn’t work. Yeah, some stories could happen. As I said, I think some cases are really bad luck. Then we have probably in other sports or in tennis, I don’t know, some players cheating. Yeah, don’t know the exact answer.”