Max Purcell suspended for doping rule violation

[travlerajm]

Should have gotten Sinner legal team. He'd be done with his sentence already.

Sinner spends whatever it takes to get the best legal team money can buy.

Purcell trims his tax bill by moving his residence to Russian-speaking frozen-winter Georgia. Probably tried to save a penny or two on the lawyer too.

 

[RSJfan]

Do not understand how he evaded the minimum of 4 years given that there is zero doubt about his intent to skirt the rules by going in for a second transfusion after covering his tracks for the first.

The clinic, even a shady clinic in Bali, is likely bound by health privacy laws…

These doping stories are simply riveting!

He certainly benefited from the fact that his ADRV involved a specified-Prohibited Method. A specified method flips the burden of proof with respect to intent from the player to the ADO.

I don’t know the rules in Bali but health privacy laws are typically designed to protect the patient who can always waive their right to privacy as Purcell consented to here so the ITIA could investigate.

It’s a red flag here for the medical facility to stonewall the investigator. And the doctor is apparently no longer with the clinic but the clinic has no forwarding info. Has the doctor gone into a witness protection program.

It’s good you have found another topic that interests you in addition to EVs but it’s disappointing that you would rely on the scoundrel BR as a source of information though his account of the case seems straight up.

 

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[jeroenn]

Calling an Indonesian facility without evidence "shady" is morally reprehensible and it is not the term Purcell used.

Sinner couldn't even manage his physio properly so having something performed in the West does not mean dope-free.

Dude, do we need to call you some help? Your obsession with Sinner in each post is really getting over the top.
Let it go man, everyone else has. You can too, if you try.

This thread is about Purcell, not about Sinner.

 

[RSJfan]

But there was nothing illegal or banned in the infusions, simply that it went above the 100 mL limit?

Yes.

Absent one of the specified exceptions, IV infusions (1) above the limit and (2) within a certain time-frame are all the elements constituting the ADRV. It doesn’t matter whether the infusions contain prohibited substances or not.

As the ITIA explains there are a number of reasons this is a Prohibited Method:

“Firstly, they can enhance performance and recovery, I understand, by increasing plasma volume levels, [ITIA CEO] Moorhouse said. They can also be used to mask the use of a prohibited substance itself. And then finally for those players who have Athlete Biological Passports, they can distort the values of players' Athlete Biological Passports.”

Source for quote:

Another Tennis Anti-Doping Saga Drips Out

Max Purcell's intravenous infusion case injects more questions into the tennis anti-doping landscape—as does his punishment.

www.benrothenberg.com

 

[Bartelby]

The thread turns on the inconsistency of the doping regulatory system. And there are lots of people pointing this out, not just me.

Dude, do we need to call you some help? Your obsession with Sinner in each post is really getting over the top.
Let it go man, everyone else has. You can too, if you try.

This thread is about Purcell, not about Sinner.

 

[Bartelby]

This is the comment by vokazu following his factual report of Purcell's suspension.

From the beginning this was always a thread contrasting Purcell's candour with Sinner's "false stories".

The thread dates from December 2024 so the discussion clearly unfolded in tandem.

At least he has the decency to enter a voluntary suspension and does not try to create false stories.

Dude, do we need to call you some help? Your obsession with Sinner in each post is really getting over the top.
Let it go man, everyone else has. You can too, if you try.

This thread is about Purcell, not about Sinner.

 

[Better_Call_Raul]

From the beginning this was always a thread contrasting Purcell's candour with Sinner's "false stories".

Our favourite Bart from the land down under is framing Max Purcell's confession as candour.
This is like praising a kangaroo for hopping after being caught in the headlights.
Max only fessed up after incriminating phone records exposed his sinister plot to conspire with Bali clinic to bury evidence.
Some candour, mate!

 

[Bartelby]

Sinner's candour flashed by him "for a moment", according to the phrase you quote.

Our favourite Bart from the land down under is framing Max Purcell's confession as candour.
This is like praising a kangaroo for hopping after being caught in the headlights.
Max only fessed up after incriminating phone records exposed his sinister plot to conspire with Bali clinic to bury evidence.
Some candour, mate!