WTA calls for doping rule changes 09/11/2009 |
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The WTA says drug testing procedures need to be modified after two players were handed one-year suspensions for failing to notify their national doping agency where they could be reached.
Belgian players Xavier Malisse and Yanina Wickmayer both fell foul of the ‘whereabouts rule’ and the governing body thinks the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) could be more flexible.
WTA Tour chairman Stacey Allaster told Reuters: “Basically each quarter, they [the players] go into the computer system and have to give at least one hour a day where they’re going to be.
“There’s no doubt that this anti-doping programme is rigorous and I think everyone in sport who is part of the WADA code are all united that we want to have a clean sport.
“This rigorous testing for out of competition, which is really what the whereabouts rule is about, is meant to ensure the integrity of the testing system and the integrity of the sport.
“But I think together with the [men's tour] ATP, we do believe that the procedures for reporting during competition could be modified. I think when the athletes are in competition it’s easy for WADA to see where the athletes are.”
She added: “Together with the ATP we have been advocating through the International Tennis Federation, to WADA, to make procedural changes to the reporting structure of the whereabouts programme in competition.”
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