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Tennis star Iga Witek suspended for 1 month because of TMZ, the same punishment as 23 Chinese swimmers
The number 2 tennis player in the worldIga Witekhas been given a one-month ban on trimetazidine (TMZ), the same substance for which 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive ahead of the 2021 Olympic Games.
Witek, 23, failed an out-of-competition drug test in August. On Wednesday, she admitted the anti-doping rule violation and accepted the sanction. The ITIA accepted her explanation that the test was caused by contaminated over-the-counter melatonin that she was taking for problems with jet lag and sleep problems.
The ITIA said its fault was “at the lower end of the spectrum, as it involved significant error or negligence.”
The suspension only lasts eight days; she was provisionally suspended from September 12 to October 4 and missed three tournaments, and will be cleared to play again on Monday. She also loses $158,944 in earnings from the Cincinnati Open, where she lost in the semifinals of her first tournament after failing the test.
“Over the past two months, I was subjected to strict ITIA procedures, which confirmed my innocence,” Swiatek said in a social media post. that I've never heard of calls into question everything I've worked so hard for my entire life.
“Both I and my team were dealing with enormous stress and anxiety. Now everything has been carefully explained and I can go back to what I love most with a clean slate.”
TMZ was responsible for 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive ahead of the 2021 Olympics, which only became public earlier this year. The athletes were released without sanctions after Chinese administrators blamed contaminated food.
That led to an escalation global war of words between US doping administrators and the World Anti-Doping Associationwith the latter threatening to withdraw accreditation from the US
The melatonin pills she took were manufactured and sold in her native Poland. Trimetazidine is available by prescription in many countries, including Poland, although it is not prescribed in other countries such as the US
Although Witek's positive test has drawn many comparisons to the case of the Chinese swimmers, there are a few key differences. One is that Witek was provisionally suspended after the test and eventually received a punishment, which the Chinese athletes did not receive. The other is that Witek was able to deliver a batch of pills for testing to a laboratory outside its home country, specifically the WADA-accredited SMRTL in Utah, USA, with independent verification by another laboratory.
WADA, meanwhile, relied on CHINADA internal investigations that revealed TMZ contamination on spice containers, drains and an exhaust fan, and relied on corroborating circumstantial evidence (such as a group of swimmers staying at another hotel) to support the findings.
The substance is also the one that led to the Chinese Olympic gold medalist's first doping suspension Sun Yangalthough he said he got the substance from his doctor.
Witek won bronze in singles at the 2024 Olympics. She is a four-time French Open champion and a one-time US Open champion.
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