Failing three times to undergo two anti-doping controls has cost the Swedish tennis player Mikael Ymer, ATP number 51 a sentence of 18 months, when considering the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)according to the majority, that the player had a “high degree” of guilt in those defaults.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) filed an appeal with TAS after the trial court found Mr. Ymer. The ITF requested a two-year sentence, which the TAS was reduced to 18 months.
On April 22, August 10 and November 7, 2021 Ymer He can’t reach for both controls. The player admitted his mistake in the first two, but not in the third, considering that the control officer did not do everything possible to find him and there was no negligence on his part.
But TAS He believes there was “culpable negligence” because he did not take care to update his whereabouts data, after the unexpected change of hotel.
Ymer participate in the recent contest Wimbledonwhere he spent two rounds and fell in the round of 16 against the Colombian Daniel Galan.
Source: La Verdad
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