2012 French Open finalist Sara Errani tested positive to a banned substance

Aussie Darcy

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The former #1 in doubles and 2012 RG finalist Sara Errani reportedly tested positive to a banned substance in the early months of 2017.

Sara has played for most of 2017 despite this. She did miss all of February with an injury where she withdrew from Dubai (she was the defending champ), Premier 5 Doha and International Acapulco.

So, i'm not sure what went on there? No punishment or a 1 month silent ban...?

I'll update with more info as it comes.

Update 1:
According to newspaper Corriere Della Sera, Sara Errani tested positive for anstrozole, banned substance used to fight breast cancer.
https://twitter.com/gasparlanca/status/894471550119944192

Update 2:
The substance in question is attributable to S4 class of " hormonal and metabolic stimulants " and there are no positional alternatives to its use.
http://www.sportface.it/tennis/doping-sara-errani-positiva-anastrozolo-controllo-urine/224293

This drug, in the absence of a therapy (It is used to treat post-menopausal breast cancer), is considered doping. The Italian Tennis Federation has decided not to abandon the former French Open finalist, bringing together a team of lawyers and doctors, with the aim of defending one of the stars of Italian tennis.
http://www.**************.org/news/news/Tennis_Stories/46146/sara-errani-fails-a-doping-test/

Sounds like perhaps she has/had breast cancer and that's why she was taking the drug. Doesn't have any benefits. But who knows with tennis.. Will be interesting to follow.
 
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Vanhool

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Seriously, I hope she is doping and doesn't have cancer :( Or better yet, that she is innocent.

It's odd. I might have seen her as doping in 2012-13 when she had amazing stamina. Her results haven't been so great lately. Of course, she could be trying to regain some lost magic.
 
Aussie Darcy

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Vanhool said:
Seriously, I hope she is doping and doesn't have cancer :( Or better yet, that she is innocent.

It's odd. I might have seen her as doping in 2012-13 when she had amazing stamina. Her results haven't been so great lately. Of course, she could be trying to regain some lost magic.
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Yeah it's an awful situation. Not sure what's gone on. Her results have dipped in the past year so maybe she looked to an alternative like doping so she could improve her results? Otherwise yeah, perhaps she's really been unlucky and gotten cancer which is awful.

I guess we will find out, but not good at all.
 
SLD76

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I'm not surprised , this is the same Errani that was involved with Tennis Val academy in Valencia which was associated with Dr Del Moral


This same Dr Del Moral who was busted administering doping


At the time of the bust by WADA and Spanish anti doping authorities , Errani put out a statement distancing herself from Moral and the academy


David Ferrer was also mentioned as associated with the Academy
 
Chicharito

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Tennis is facing its most significant doping case since the exposing of Maria Sharapova after former French Open finalist Sara Errani was reported to have failed a drugs test.

The 30-year-old Italian, once ranked No 5 in the world but now down at 98, is reported by newspaper Corriere della Serra to have tested positive for Anastrozole earlier this year.

The substance is more commonly known as a treatment for breast cancer, but is on the banned list due to its qualities as a masking agent.

Errani is said to have been subjected to an out-of-competition test at her home, and has dropped out of this week Rogers Cup in Montreal.

In 2012 she admitted to have been treated by Spanish cycling doctor Luis Garcia Del Moral, who also worked with Lance Armstrong, shortly after the International Tennis Federation issued a directive that no players should associate with him.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/te...g-drugs-test-Italian-media.html#ixzz4p4MVWV8J
 
Chicharito

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Let's see.

However she raised a lot of red flags in 2012. I was highly suspicious of her then.

Aussie Darcy said:
Yeah it's an awful situation. Not sure what's gone on. Her results have dipped in the past year so maybe she looked to an alternative like doping so she could improve her results? Otherwise yeah, perhaps she's really been unlucky and gotten cancer which is awful.

I guess we will find out, but not good at all.
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If she is doping now then she has been since 2012. Just finally got caught, very unlikely to have started recently.
 
PDJ

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Does any one, except Bouchard, Mladvonvic and any one else French actually care?
Like, if true, she's alone in doping....
 
Bartelby

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1. If she had cancer she would not be playing or would be having permission to take medication that would otherwise be banned if not for her illness.

2. The drug she has tested positive for is not some obscure East European pseudo-drug.

3. Her former relationship with a 'drug doctor' also makes her innocence less likely even if it is not proof of anything.
Vanhool said:
Seriously, I hope she is doping and doesn't have cancer :( Or better yet, that she is innocent.

It's odd. I might have seen her as doping in 2012-13 when she had amazing stamina. Her results haven't been so great lately. Of course, she could be trying to regain some lost magic.
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Bartelby

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If you test positive you can play on until a hearing or you can voluntarily sit out until the hearing.

She undoubtedly took the former option.

The problem with this option is that your ban starts at the conclusion of the hearing.

In the latter case, the ban starts from the time the lab reports a positive test.

That's the option that Sharapova took, although she announced that immediately whereas most quietly opt out.
Aussie Darcy said:
The former #1 in doubles and 2012 RG finalist Sara Errani reportedly tested positive to a banned substance in the early months of 2017.

Sara has played for most of 2017 despite this. She did miss all of February with an injury where she withdrew from Dubai (she was the defending champ), Premier 5 Doha and International Acapulco.

So, i'm not sure what went on there? No punishment or a 1 month silent ban...?
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Bartelby

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La Gazetta dello Sport:
According to Itf's rumors, disqualification could be only two months (the minimum) because the international federation would have believed in the athlete's good faith. The February check was carried out at Errani's home, the substance is a stimulant and it is likely that investigators believed unintentional ingestion.
 
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Bartelby

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Given that Sharapova did not take a PED, I would suggest Errani is in a class of her own.

A thread was already made on this topic three hours or more ago.
 
Bobby Jr

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Bartelby said:
Given that Sharapova did not take a PED, I would suggest Errani is in a class of her own.
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You mean aside from that one she took for ten years and failed that entire time to disclose on her mandatory supplements/medications disclosure form? The one for heart conditions and pre-diabetes which, amazingly she and hundreds of other otherwise super fit, world class athletes mostly from a certain area of Europe all suffer from in unison?

Aside from that one?
 
Bartelby

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You are just repeating stupidly mangled claims that have no basis in fact. If you want facts then consult the CAS report.

Meldonium is not a PED and WADA has never claimed it was one. If you have proof to the contrary, produce it!

Taking a masking agent to cloak a steroid is a well-known drugging technique. Meldonium is an over the counter placebo designed for East European grannies.

WADA banned it based it on one sociological study commissioned by USADA.

Bobby Jr said:
You mean aside from that one she took for ten years and failed that entire time to disclose on her mandatory supplements/medications disclosure form? The one for heart conditions and pre-diabetes which, amazingly she and hundreds of other otherwise super fit, world class athletes mostly from a certain area of Europe all suffer from in unison?

Aside from that one?
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Bartelby

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Corriere della Sera:
There are no positional alternatives to its use (it is used to treat post-menopausal breast cancer). In the absence of therapeutic exemption, as it is part of the huge and varied family of anabolic steroids, it is considered doping. There is a previous anastrozole in the recent history of Italian sports: the 35-year-old blue shirtkeeper Niccolò Mornati, whose four-year stop was imposed on the anti-doping national court on the eve of the Rio de Janeiro Games, halved (on presentation of a Imposing dossier) in appeal. And 15 positives registered in the world. All sanctioned.
 
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Pity. If she were more successful, she could afford to buy her own doctor and have him trump up TUEs for whatever performance enhancers she wanted.
 
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Bartelby

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WADA can always appeal if it takes anti-doping seriously, but I'm sure it doesn't and it won't.
 
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jm1980

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Bartelby said:
You are just repeating stupidly mangled claims that have no basis in fact. If you want facts then consult the CAS report.

Meldonium is not a PED and WADA has never claimed it was one. If you have proof to the contrary, produce it!

Taking a masking agent to cloak a steroid is a well-known drugging technique. Meldonium is an over the counter placebo designed for East European grannies.

WADA banned it based it on one sociological study commissioned by USADA.
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Lol, do you write for RT?
 
Bobby Jr

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Bartelby said:
WADA banned it based it on one sociological study commissioned by USADA.
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No, they banned it on the same basis they have many others : its pattern(s) of use in disclosure forms which athletes are required to submit honestly and fully each year (which Sharapova did not for about ten years straight).

When they smell smoke enough times they interpret as being the result of fire. They don't need to see the fire as you effectively suggest. That approach would never work because drug companies are so far ahead of the available research curve - something which is patently obvious to all but the disingenuous or those trying to explain away their attempts to deceive the drug-testing regime they are deemed to have accepted the second they chose to play a sport covered by WADA (and other) protocols/rules/guidelines.

Smoke everywhere means something - and hundreds of Eastern European athletes are not queuing up to take a "placebo, "over the counter" drug for grannies.

You might think you're being clever to continue this lame dance around the facts and act like the Johnnie Cochran of drug cheats. In reality you're the sort who would probably argue Lance Armstrong "wasn't really cheating" even long after he had admitted it himself.
 
Bartelby

Bartelby

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They banned it on one piece of sociological research commissioned by USADA for, I would suggest, political purposes.

WADA does not claim and never has claimed ato have relied on any other research beside this one study.

Bobby Jr said:
No, they banned it on the same basis they have many others : its pattern(s) of use in disclosure forms which athletes are required to submit honestly and fully each year (which Sharapova did not for about ten years straight).

When they smell smoke enough times they interpret as being the result of fire. They don't need to see the fire as you effectively suggest. That approach would never work because drug companies are so far ahead of the available research curve - something which is patently obvious to all but the disingenuous or those trying to explain away their attempts to deceive the drug-testing regime they are deemed to have accepted the second they chose to play a sport covered by WADA (and other) protocols/rules/guidelines.

Smoke everywhere means something - and hundreds of Eastern European athletes are not queuing up to take a "placebo, "over the counter" drug for grannies.

You might think you're being clever to continue this lame dance around the facts and act like the Johnnie Cochran of drug cheats. In reality you're the sort who would probably argue Lance Armstrong "wasn't really cheating" even long after he had admitted it himself.
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70後

70後

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2 months says it all. It seems to be a real accident and that I guess will be the consensus of her peers too.
 
Bartelby

Bartelby

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I was the first person on this blog to criticise Armstrong as a drug cheat long before he confessed and I was universally reviled for doing so.

I was right all along on Armstrong and I am right on Sharapova.

Bobby Jr said:
In reality you're the sort who would probably argue Lance Armstrong "wasn't really cheating" even long after he had admitted it himself.
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Bobby Jr

Bobby Jr

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Bartelby said:
Everything I wrote is factual, whereas you have tried a feeble piece of irrelevant wit.
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Wrong. Meldonium was not for East European grannies, it was designed for use on livestock.

Asserting ******** as "facts" doesn't make them facts. It is just an example of your usual proof by belt-fed partial truths deliberately used out of proper context.
 
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