World tennis anti-doping body ITIA
said Tuesday that Jannik Sinner had been acquitted August 15 of
taking a banned steroid in April due to "unconscious intake" of
the substance but that the sentence was appealable by the World
Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as well as by the Italian ant-doping
agency NADO.
World number one Sinner, 23, was twice subjected to doping tests
that revealed a positive result for a metabolite of Clostebol,
eight days apart, said ITIA the International Tennis Integrity
Agency.
The decision of an independent court to find Australian Open
champ Sinner innocent was taken on 15 August, and "is appealable
by WADA and NADO."
Sinner reportedly settled the loss of prize money and 400 points
won at Indian Wells in April, ITIA said.
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