Excellent, showing your in-depth study of the case work documents and the official codes - I wish all commentators took as much trouble From my point of view, the main issue thrown up by both the Swiatek and the Sinner cases is that there should be a clear distinction in the consequences when involuntary contamination is proven, and the quantity of the banned substance shows clearly that it did not give the athlete a competitive advantage. The antidoping authorities should concentrate their efforst on combatting actual doping, and not in persecuting athletes who they accept are innocent of doping. Being suspended in these cases is way too heavy a sanction, in my view, relative to the amount of "negligence". Perhaps involuntary contamination could be "punished" by more frequent testing for a period of time, or something similar. Otherwise, as Daniil Medvedev said in a recent interview, all tennis players should be very afraid, their career, reputation and livelyhood can go up in smoke in an instant for something they could not know or avoid, like consuming contaminated food or medicine , or through skin to skin contamination in some cases.
As a lab owner upgraded to new HLPC-MS/MS to drill down from PPM to PPB $500K. Increase sensitivity discovering minuscule amounts of contaminants. TMZ airborne particles, surface adhesion to machinery, resulting contaminates to other products. Iga's case: The precursory estimate on data of the concentration of TMZ is .00005 Parts Per Million. This would be equivalent to putting two eyedrops of red wine in an Olympic pool. (660,000 gallons) Does anybody think this would turn the water red? Does anybody think the amount would have any physiological benefits to Iga? Did her hair test positive? No. Did ITIA make contact with the manufacture? No. Does the manufacture of the melatonin produce TMZ? Yes. The redemption for Iga will be AI exonerating her in two years. Mark my words, the only person in this fiasco without egg on their face will be Iga
Excellent, showing your in-depth study of the case work documents and the official codes - I wish all commentators took as much trouble
From my point of view, the main issue thrown up by both the Swiatek and the Sinner cases is that there should be a clear distinction in the consequences when involuntary contamination is proven, and the quantity of the banned substance shows clearly that it did not give the athlete a competitive advantage. The antidoping authorities should concentrate their efforst on combatting actual doping, and not in persecuting athletes who they accept are innocent of doping. Being suspended in these cases is way too heavy a sanction, in my view, relative to the amount of "negligence". Perhaps involuntary contamination could be "punished" by more frequent testing for a period of time, or something similar. Otherwise, as Daniil Medvedev said in a recent interview, all tennis players should be very afraid, their career, reputation and livelyhood can go up in smoke in an instant for something they could not know or avoid, like consuming contaminated food or medicine , or through skin to skin contamination in some cases.
As a lab owner upgraded to new HLPC-MS/MS to drill down from PPM to PPB $500K. Increase sensitivity discovering minuscule amounts of contaminants. TMZ airborne particles, surface adhesion to machinery, resulting contaminates to other products.
Iga's case: The precursory estimate on data of the concentration of TMZ is .00005 Parts Per Million. This would be equivalent to putting two eyedrops of red wine in an Olympic pool. (660,000 gallons) Does anybody think this would turn the water red? Does anybody think the amount would have any physiological benefits to Iga? Did her hair test positive? No. Did ITIA make contact with the manufacture? No. Does the manufacture of the melatonin produce TMZ? Yes. The redemption for Iga will be AI exonerating her in two years. Mark my words, the only person in this fiasco without egg on their face will be Iga