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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    Probably not. Settlements generally have no precedential status (except in the informal sense that someone negotiating his/her own settlement might ask for a deal like Sinner's or Swiatek's). And mere arguments made by an appealing party (WADA) have no status either. If the CAS had rendered a...
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    WADA: “Sinner's case was a unique one, a year's stop would have been too much”

    James Fitzgerald is not a lawyer. He is the head of media relations for WADA and a former journalist. The article excerpt posted by the OP does not state that Fitzgerald is a lawyer, so it's not clear where you even got that idea.
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    You have a habit of evading arguments rather than meeting them head-on. It's annoying and disingenuous. Whether "doper" is a word that exists in the English language is irrelevant here. That issue is a straw man. I'll repeat exactly what I wrote above when I first replied to you: "Indeed...
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    Did you even read what I wrote? Take your post #25 above. Leave its first sentence in place. Strike out/delete/erase the second sentence. Then stop.
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    You are wrong in your summary here because testing positive for a banned substance does not automatically make an athlete a "doper." Indeed, "doper" is not a term that even exists in the TADP. It's merely an accusatory label beloved in this forum because it can be tossed around in angry posts...
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    Everything I wrote was completely correct. You are simply constitutionally incapable of tolerating a process that is not configured the way you believe it should be. High-profile settlements in many areas -- criminal cases, civil suits, regulatory matters, and now WADA enforcement actions as...
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    There is clearly an epidemic of "special treatment" occurring! This needs to be investigated.
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    The suspension doesn't "just happen" to start and end at the selected dates. You're implying that there is some sort of pretense here that the ban was a randomly configured event, and the parties were then surprised by the outcome: "Well, look at that! Ol' Jannik won't have to miss the French...
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    Wada says Sinner case 'million miles away from doping'

    Because a violation of the TADP does not consist only of deliberate "doping." Testing positive for a banned substance, even through trivial accidental exposure, constitutes a violation. We have been over this and over this a thousand times since last fall! Arguably, the strict liability standard...
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    Undisputable facts about the Sinner situation.

    Do you not understand the basic facts of the case? No "decision" was reached recently -- the three-month suspension is the result of a negotiated resolution. It's a settlement, not a decision. And regardless of how the outcome is classfied, the question of altering tournament results has been...
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    Undisputable facts about the Sinner situation.

    That makes no sense. "Expedited to the max"? It has taken approximately 11 months from Sinner's positive tests to reach the agreed-upon resolution, and by the time Sinner's suspension is over, about 14 months will have elapsed. Even if that is not glacially slow, in no universe is it "as quickly...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    When did you flip to the wacko perspective on this case? Last year, your comments were along the lines of, "WADA should not appeal. This case is over, thank the Lord." The about-face (indicated especially by resort to the use of the forum-plaguing term "disgusting" with respect to the case) has...
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    Will Zverev be ready to seize the moment?

    Zverev has to learn how to beat the likes of Cerundolo, not to mention Fritz, before he can seize anything.
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    Sinner is made to miss 4 Masters tournament

    Suspension from play as a sanction in the anti-doping system is meant to remove the player from his/her profession temporarily, with the expectation that this removal will result in the loss of significant income-generating opportunities as well as many missed ranking points and possibly...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    Extensive research isn't always necessary. Anyone who reads just the first few paragraphs of this article will see that even WADA says that Sinner is not an intentional doper but is being sanctioned for the screw-ups of his "entourage"...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    No one should make career decisions or choose litigation strategies based on what ignorant or stupid people think. There's no reason to shoot yourself in the foot just so some doofus on YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok, or this forum can proclaim himself satisfied that you went down swinging.
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    There aren't two legitimate sides here. The problem with the position of Kafelnikov and his smarmy ilk is that Sinner's "innocence," if we want to call it that, already had been decided. There's nothing meaningful left for Sinner to "stand up for." The ITIA agreed that Sinner did not dope...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    Kafelnikov is indeed a meathead. But since he's more than 10 years old, I assume he understands that settlements are a matter of prudent risk management, not declarations of "guilt" or "innocence." Therefore, his post is just pure, malicious muckraking, with a stupid veneer of "just asking...
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    Hamad "Jedi" Medjedovic, a Force to be reckoned with

    This guy is only 21 years old? He looks as weathered and "settled in" as Stan Wawrinka.
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    False. Sinner forfeited 400 ranking points from 2024 Indian Wells. It's also comically disingenuous to pretend that not being able to earn any ranking points for three months doesn't make any difference. This statement is too silly even to qualify as "false."
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    Let's not generalize about "the fans" based on the online histrionics of the perpetually outraged. The initial "sentence" (not an accurate description, but we'll go with your terminology) was brief because Sinner brought an immediate, ostensibly well-founded appeal. The ITIA investigation...
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    WADA offered Sinner a deal, most likely to avoid getting their system blown up by CAS

    Yes, it's worth pointing this out. Sinner's cost-benefit analysis regarding the compromise effectuated by the settlement is pretty clear (except to the wilfully ignorant), but it's certainly true that WADA would have accepted some risks as well by pushing this matter all the way to a CAS...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    The whole point of a settlement -- for both sides -- is to accept a tolerable compromise in exchange for ending the dispute and avoiding a potentially worse outcome (again, this could happen to either side). There's nothing corrupt about that. If the compromise were not tolerable to both sides...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    Yes. While it's fair to grumble about Swiatek's one-month suspension settlement as having no practical impact due to the time of year in which it occurred, the same is not true of Sinner's deal. There are thousands of ranking points and many millions of dollars in prize money that he'll now have...
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    Sinner accepts settlement with WADA for 3 month ban

    This is a ridiculous assertion. WADA itself could not have been any clearer in its summary of the deal: "“WADA accepts that Mr. Sinner did not intend to cheat, and that his exposure to clostebol did not provide any performance-enhancing benefit and took place without his knowledge as the result...
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    Vukov Banned

    Without commenting on the specific qualifications, actions, or possible scum-bucketry of the USTA lawyer, let me say that as an in-house attorney myself (Harvard Law School mcl if "tiering" is relevant), any defense of the organization is always a collaboration between the in-house legal...
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    Vukov Banned

    Yes, as well as satisfying the objective of protecting an individual, identified player, the WTA's actions here are elementary risk management protocols for the entity itself. All large organizations have strict codes of conduct forbidding abuse and harassment, appropriate investigative...
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    Vukov Banned

    Look at my post directly above yours (#88).
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    Vukov Banned

    All this material is readily available: https://www.wtatennis.com/wta-rules. In particular, the WTA Safeguarding Code sets forth very detailed behavioral standards, procedural rules, dispute and appeal processes, etc. The entire Code applies to all "Covered Persons," who are defined as follows...
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    Safin backhand vs Sinner backhand

    It can take a while to work up to a challenge. Djokovic's first victories against Nadal on clay occurred in 2011, when Djoker was 24. Before then, Djokovic lost nine straight matches on clay to Nadal. Sinner obviously couldn't have the same long-term opportunity to improve, adapt, and...
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