Sinner cleared after testing positive for banned steroid
The Independent|August 21, 2024
The world’s No 1 men’s tennis player, Jannik Sinner, twice tested positive for a banned substance in March, it has been revealed.
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Sinner cleared after testing positive for banned steroid

But he been cleared of wrongdoing after proving he had been contaminated by his physiotherapist.

During the Indian Wells hard court tournament in California, Sinner tested positive for low levels of a metabolite of clostebol, a banned anabolic steroid that can be used for ophthalmological and dermatological purposes. Sinner tested positive again eight days later in an out-of-competition sample.

Sinner was provisionally suspended because of those test results and was stripped of prize money and points earned at Indian Wells. But he will not receive a ban because an independent tribunal said it was not intentional.

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