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So you have (independent) expert testimony affirming that the levels detected were consistent with transdermal, inadvertent exposure, and none of them suggested the explanation is somehow inconsistent with the scientific analysis. That, among other things, was enough according to WADA and ITIA burden-of-proof standards, but you arbitrarily decide that standard is insufficient? Fine, but why? What is it about the explanation that seems so incredible that a different standard should be applied?
My point is this: calling Sinner a doper is like calling someone a cheater for accidentally breaking a rule, like a cyclist taking a shortcut without being aware of it. The term thus becomes both inaccurate and defamatory.
Laughable comparison. Sinner got caught and convicted.
 
So you have (independent) expert testimony affirming that the levels detected were consistent with transdermal, inadvertent exposure, and none of them suggested the explanation is somehow inconsistent with the scientific analysis. That, among other things, was enough according to WADA and ITIA burden-of-proof standards, but you arbitrarily decide that standard is insufficient? Fine, but why? What is it about the explanation that seems so incredible that a different standard should be applied?
My point is this: calling Sinner a doper is like calling someone a cheater for accidentally breaking a rule, like a cyclist taking a shortcut without being aware of it. The term thus becomes both inaccurate and defamatory.
I’m an Occam’s Razor kind of guy. To me, not to you obviously, the sequence of events that needed to happen to result in contamination is far less likely than using the substance as a performance enhancer in a sport where top pros have been busted even despite lax testing standards. Particularly when any masseuse trainer would know that can’t have any products containing PEDs anywhere near the athlete. So the explanation also requires us to believe in an incredible level of stupidity on the part of the masseuse.

And no the scientific evidence is not showing that this very particular sequence of events would result in the level of substance found in his bloodstream.
But you seem to know that doping was not a reasonable possibility. I will now just take your word for it,
 
I’m an Occam’s Razor kind of guy. To me, not to you obviously, the sequence of events that needed to happen to result in contamination is far less likely than using the substance as a performance enhancer in a sport where top pros have been busted even despite lax testing standards. Particularly when any masseuse trainer would know that can’t have any products containing PEDs anywhere near the athlete. So the explanation also requires us to believe in an incredible level of stupidity on the part of the masseuse.

And no the scientific evidence is not showing that this very particular sequence of events would result in the level of substance found in his bloodstream.
But you seem to know that doping was not a reasonable possibility. I will now just take your word for it,
So, basically, even though all relevant bodies agree he's not a doper, your gut feeling says otherwise and that makes it OK to publicly label him such as if it were an objective truth?
 
Sinner - well named. Tennis & Wimbledon get the champion they deserve........Got a short ban, just in time for the French Open......laughable.

Good job he isn't a cyclist - he'd still be banned......the double standards stink; as do the non journalism from the tennis media. They're all PR men/ women.
Lol cycling is trying even less to catch the big boys nowadays.

In tennis they sometimes accidentally catch them because they're just worse at their glowing times.
 
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