What a mess!
What happened
Viktor has been banned from tennis for 18 months as he failed to provide a blood test in Monte-Carlo. That day the Serb was sick and apparently he asked to do the tests the day after. According to Troicki the official, Dr. Gorodoliva, said to him that he would have written a letter to the ITF, he could have taken the test the day after.
The ITF statement
“Troicki did not properly take on board at the time her statement that she could not advise him as to whether his reason for not giving blood was a valid one, and he elevated her statement that he should put his explanation in writing to the ITF into something that it was not – he saw it as being offered as a potential solution to the problem, whereas it was in fact being proposed by her merely as part of the due process to be followed in such circumstances,” the ITF wrote
Nole: She was lying a lot
Djokovic is quite upset by the situation to comment “I don’t see why they’re keeping him suspended. For what? For failing to provide the blood test? He asked the lady that day, you know, he’s not feeling well. Can I provide you tomorrow? She said, ‘Yes, if you write report.’ He wrote the report, and the next thing you know she’s failing to say the truth in the court in London. She was saying that he was convincing him, that it took her 20 minutes to walk from anti-doping office to the ATP office in Monte-Carlo tournament, which is 20 meters. So she was lying a lot. That’s very bad for our sport. That’s very bad for anti-doping agency, to have people who are responsible for this work to fail to say what really happened that day. There was another person present in the room that day that wrote a perfect English on the report, and then in the court in London he didn’t understand a single word.”
The Petition
Nole wrote a petition with the aim to convincing the ITF to review its anti-doping rules “The reason why I was the first one to write a petition for the rule change is to try to spread the awareness to the people around that obviously there is — it all comes down to who said what and who believes in who, you know what I mean?
It’s just not fair towards the players, because there has to be I guess technology or a camera or an additional person in the room while you’re doing the test, because then — the player has no really rights.”
Somebody has to step in in this!
