Sir Dyson, English, expert jurist, has been appointed: he is a member of the court that had already acquitted the blue
Sinner, let’s change. And this time we’re not talking about coaches but about referees. There is something new in the names of the arbitration panel that will judge him before the CAS in April and concerns the judge chosen by the world number 1’s legal team in the trial which will take place in Lausanne on 16 and 17 April. Two days in which the fate of Jannik will be decided, who risks from one to two years of disqualification (which would not be retroactive and therefore would not affect the results obtained from the first positive test onwards, until the court’s decision) for negligence at the request of Wada regarding the Clostebol case. In fact, Jeff Benz will not be the referee chosen by the player, but Lord John Dyson. He is a very high profile jurist, born in 1943, former judge of the English Supreme Court. The change would be due to a question of dates, but it is also probable that Sinner’s lawyers opted for the English referee, who is highly esteemed, as he is a member of Sport Resolutions, the independent tribunal to which International Tennis Integrity had turned. Agency, and that he had declared Sinner innocent “without malice or negligence” regarding the steroid test of less than one billionth of a gram. The world number 1 returned to the topic this week: “I’m optimistic about the arbitration – he said once the date came out -. I know I haven’t done anything, but I also know that I can’t have control over that what will happen.”
The others
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A few days ago, the president of the arbitration board, appointed by the Tas, was chosen. He is the Luxembourger Jacques Radoux, born in 1969, a highly esteemed judge in the world, known for his great preparation and balance, but above all a former tennis player, chosen precisely for the delicacy of the case. It is necessary that whoever has to decide on the career of the best player in the world is legally prepared, but can also understand the athlete’s life. Radoux did not have an extraordinary career at ATP level, but he was Davis’ captain for the Luxembourg team from 2008 to 2013. In short, a tennis player will judge a world number 1 with full knowledge of the facts. Certainly his career as a jurist has given him greater satisfaction: studying law in France, legal secretary at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Radoux is also involved in social work and since 2008 has been in charge of the tennis section of Special Olympics Luxembourg. The referee chosen by Wada, however, is Ken Lalo. Current president of the Israeli equestrian sports federation, Lalo is 66 years old and has three children and has been part of the list of referees of the Court of Arbitration for Sport since 2011. We don’t remember any media cases about him, but he is a sports jurist of great experience and value and, when it comes to prohibited substances, his positions are extremely intransigent. Meanwhile, the documentation is in the hands of the arbitration panel: Sinner’s legal team presented its documentation, technically the “Answer brief”, in response to the appeal brief, defined as the “Appeal brief”, of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Good faith
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It is important to remember that Wada accepted the player’s good faith, but believes that he should have monitored his staff more efficiently. Hence, therefore, the appeal to the Tas. The player’s defense will have to demonstrate, in the new trial, that Sinner was not negligent, thus eliminating the possibility of a sanction. He will have to convince the panel, therefore, that he has done everything in his power to prevent Umberto Ferrara, the athletic trainer, from giving the physiotherapist Giacomo Naldi the Clostebol-based spray with which he inadvertently contaminated the player during treatments. If the player is deemed negligent, or significantly negligent, the period of ineligibility would be a minimum of one year.
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