Sydney Dorcil Hit with Four-Year Doping Ban

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, July 17, 2023

The Vitamin B protection didn’t save Sydney Dorcil from a four-year ban.

American baseliner Dorcil has been hit with a four-year doping ban, the International Tennis Integrity Agency announced today.

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Dorcil, who has been provisionally suspended since January thirteenth, will see her ban finish at 11.59 pm on January twelfth, 2027.

The 20-year-old Dorcil, who reached a career-highest WTA singles rating of 1,255 final January, was examined whereas enjoying a Challenger in Lima, Peru in November, 2022.

The pattern offered was break up into A and B samples and the next evaluation of the A pattern discovered that it contained boldenone and its metabolites, which is “a non-Specified Substance on the World Anti-Doping Company Prohibited Checklist,” the ITIA mentioned.

Boldenone is an “anabolic androgenic steroid and artificial spinoff of testosterone that was initially developed for veterinary use however has since change into one of many extra widespread performance-enhancing medicine that athletes check optimistic for in sport,” the United States Anti-Doping Agency reports.

Although Dorcil didn’t deny the fees, she used the Vitamin B protection to say she was the sufferer of contamination.

Dorcil asserted the boldenone in her system was a results of a contaminated vitamin B12 injection. Nevertheless, the Unbiased Tribunal didn’t settle for that rationalization. The Tribunal additionally didn’t imagine that the violation “was unintentional” based on the ITIA.

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