Tennis world No 1 Jannik Sinner fails TWO drugs tests for a banned steroid but WON’T face a ban after he gave a bizarre excuse

By Dominic Hogan

Jannik Sinner will not be serving a ban despite failing two anti-doping tests, it was announced on Tuesday. 

The World No 1 twice failed tests after testing positive for the banned substance Clostebol earlier this year.

Though he had failed both tests, they were not made public due to the player successfully appealing the ensuing provisional bans as a result of contamination. 

A statement posted by the Italian on social media on Tuesday revealed that he had been notified of a positive test in April for a trace amount of Clostebol – less than a billionth of a gram. 

He then explained how the positive result emerged, revealing that his fitness trainer had purchased a product ‘easily available over the counter’ in a pharmacy.

World No 1 Jannik Sinner will not serve a ban after being cleared of fault following two positive anti-doping tests

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‘Following a thorough and extensive investigation the ITIA and Jannik discovered the inadvertent contamination of Clostebol came through the treatment he received from his physiotherapist,’ it read.

‘His fitness trainer purchased a product, easily available over the counter in any Italian pharmacy, which he gave to Jannik’s physiotherapist to care for a cut on the physiotherapist’s finger. Jannik knew nothing of this, and his physiotherapist did not know that he was using a product containing Clostebol. 

‘The physiotherapist treated Jannik without gloves and coupled with various skin lesions on Jannik’s body caused the inadvertent contamination.’

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