British Tennis Forum - Celebrating 20 Years!

Lambda_ wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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JonH wrote:

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Blue_Belle wrote:

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Nick Kygrios suspended for taking cocaine whilst playing in Mallorca.

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 Really? Idiot - that is him done then. What a waste

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As SC's later BBC article link says, under current rules if Kyrgios can prove that he took it outside of a competition the ban would just be 3 months. And Russell Fuller has further said on Radio 5 Live that if that was the case and he also entered into a rehabilitation programme it could be just one month. The ruies have evidently changed since Dan Evans' case.

Still of course he has hardly played in recent years but he has said that he is reluctant to call time on his career

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Yes the rules have changed, by introducing a violation out of competition. Use of cocaine out of competition was not an anti doping violation at the time of Dan's case. His violation was in competition when residue in his wash bag had contaminated his medication he took in competition. 

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Is that right re Evo? I never knew about the contamination element. Putting aside the rights and wrongs of taking cocaine at all, he was (from a rules perspective) unlucky with that. I never knew.