August 21, 2024 • 3 mins
The coach of world tennis number one Jannik Sinner admits the cloud of a potential doping ban has taken its toll on the young Italian star.
Sinner's been fined and stripped of ranking points - but cleared of any suspension for a pair of positive tests for an anabolic steroid in March.
Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave unpacks the controversy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports stook coasters with me now, hello
dance greeting. What's Nikarios got to say for himself? He's
not overly happy about what's happened with Annix Center. Does
he not believe the story? He's plainly not. I don't
know if he knows the details or the fine print
or what actually was come up with as far as
the the investigation into the one millionth of a gram
(00:25):
because what happened to Jane got tested twice, so they
had one another Sumer got tested twice and as a
direct result of that testing, he lost his ranking points
for that tournament, also lost his prize money, so that
was already a hit, he protested. They went back, they
had a look at it and went well, no on balance, no, no,
you're not guilty, and you're free to come up because
(00:45):
the guy old lady who was giving him a massage,
it sprayed something on their hands. It's something that is
only available in a handful of countries. It's not all
and Italy. It's in there now and you're saying it's
my newtay. How much was in there? A billiant a
million three? So wasn't his performance? I would highly doubt.
I was. I was talking on the Travis Tiger today
(01:08):
and you'll hear that on sports talk. He's the ahead
of you SARTA, the antidoping place out of the States,
and he said, look, you can actually spray this on
your hand. You could chake someone's hand and they would
show it positive for it and there's nothing in it
that's performance enhancing. Okay, he's pleased about it because he's
what he wants WADA to do now is find a threshold,
because he said, there's a lot of money and time
(01:30):
spent chasing people that aren't cheating, that have got a
minuscule amount of it in them, and it's really just
wasting everybody's time and it's tarnishing these athletes. Now, Travis
is fairly direct and fairly robust and his criticism of
drugged athletes, and he has no issue whatsoever with what's
happened there with Sinner. He said, it's fine. It's a
(01:51):
shame you had to go through it, but there you go.
And of course Karios has come off half cocked a
few other ex tennis players as well. You know, one
rule for them, one rule for something else. Well, I
think you'll take each case as it stands, don't you dars?
Have the spring box got a strength inside for the
All Blacks? Have they beefed it up? Well, they've got
to know about beefed up because it's mostly just it's
a couple of Fords. I mean, Stephen kits off. He's scary,
(02:12):
let's face it, a massive ginger prop he freaks me
out a jasper visa or jasper wise from jasper wise.
Other number eight is back and again, so there's a
couple of the big hefty pack back. But these five
guys have all come back from winning a World Cup,
so they're not slugs. The half back hence is back
(02:33):
in again, Estehuzen and Moody back in the side again.
Remembering this is the first time these teams have clashed
since the defeat in the World Cup final. It is
in Jansburg, and what do we know about Jana'sburg? Very dangerous?
Never go there, it's gross, okay, And what else do
we know about Johannesburg, high altitude? There you go, So
they're going to hopefully try and run the All Blacks
(02:54):
off their feet. Now, the South Africa to be very
happy to come back from the drenching that they took
Weather what up against Australia back on his hard and
fast grounds. But also remember that Scott Barrett the Captain
will be back too. We got Ardie Savia who played
the house down at eight last time around, and then
you've got Sam Kin who will probably come off the
(03:15):
bench now. Sam will be fierce because it was that
game that got scene told that he did us All
Bay Captain. See, there are so many moving parts to
this and so many storylines into it. We only have
to wait for a week and a half. It's looking forward. Hey,
thank you, Darcy, appreciate it. Darcy Watergrove Sports talk host
Back at seven for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.
(03:36):
Listen live to news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Darcy water Grave sports stook coasters with me now, hello
dance greeting. What's Nikarios got to say for himself? He's
not overly happy about what's happened with Annix Center. Does
he not believe the story? He's plainly not. I don't
know if he knows the details or the fine print
or what actually was come up with as far as
the the investigation into the one millionth of a gram
(00:25):
because what happened to Jane got tested twice, so they
had one another Sumer got tested twice and as a
direct result of that testing, he lost his ranking points
for that tournament, also lost his prize money, so that
was already a hit, he protested. They went back, they
had a look at it and went well, no on balance, no, no,
you're not guilty, and you're free to come up because
(00:45):
the guy old lady who was giving him a massage,
it sprayed something on their hands. It's something that is
only available in a handful of countries. It's not all
and Italy. It's in there now and you're saying it's
my newtay. How much was in there? A billiant a
million three? So wasn't his performance? I would highly doubt.
I was. I was talking on the Travis Tiger today
(01:08):
and you'll hear that on sports talk. He's the ahead
of you SARTA, the antidoping place out of the States,
and he said, look, you can actually spray this on
your hand. You could chake someone's hand and they would
show it positive for it and there's nothing in it
that's performance enhancing. Okay, he's pleased about it because he's
what he wants WADA to do now is find a threshold,
because he said, there's a lot of money and time
(01:30):
spent chasing people that aren't cheating, that have got a
minuscule amount of it in them, and it's really just
wasting everybody's time and it's tarnishing these athletes. Now, Travis
is fairly direct and fairly robust and his criticism of
drugged athletes, and he has no issue whatsoever with what's
happened there with Sinner. He said, it's fine. It's a
(01:51):
shame you had to go through it, but there you go.
And of course Karios has come off half cocked a
few other ex tennis players as well. You know, one
rule for them, one rule for something else. Well, I
think you'll take each case as it stands, don't you dars?
Have the spring box got a strength inside for the
All Blacks? Have they beefed it up? Well, they've got
to know about beefed up because it's mostly just it's
a couple of Fords. I mean, Stephen kits off. He's scary,
(02:12):
let's face it, a massive ginger prop he freaks me
out a jasper visa or jasper wise from jasper wise.
Other number eight is back and again, so there's a
couple of the big hefty pack back. But these five
guys have all come back from winning a World Cup,
so they're not slugs. The half back hence is back
(02:33):
in again, Estehuzen and Moody back in the side again.
Remembering this is the first time these teams have clashed
since the defeat in the World Cup final. It is
in Jansburg, and what do we know about Jana'sburg? Very dangerous?
Never go there, it's gross, okay, And what else do
we know about Johannesburg, high altitude? There you go, So
they're going to hopefully try and run the All Blacks
(02:54):
off their feet. Now, the South Africa to be very
happy to come back from the drenching that they took
Weather what up against Australia back on his hard and
fast grounds. But also remember that Scott Barrett the Captain
will be back too. We got Ardie Savia who played
the house down at eight last time around, and then
you've got Sam Kin who will probably come off the
(03:15):
bench now. Sam will be fierce because it was that
game that got scene told that he did us All
Bay Captain. See, there are so many moving parts to
this and so many storylines into it. We only have
to wait for a week and a half. It's looking forward. Hey,
thank you, Darcy, appreciate it. Darcy Watergrove Sports talk host
Back at seven for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive.
(03:36):
Listen live to news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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