What Tennis' Latest Scandal Teaches Us About Doping

World Number Two tennis player Iga Swiatek's positive test for a little-known product called Trimetazidine raises the issue of whether drug testing is going too far. Should there not be a threshold for the level of prohibited substances found in the body? Is there a performance advantage? What fault lies with the athlete? No matter the final outcome, an athlete remains tainted no matter their potential innocence, which could affect performance and sponsorship agreements. In this Spotlight episode, the team discuss the case, its similarities and differences compared to tennis' other high profile doping case, Janik Sinner, and what it means for anti-doping.

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The ITA decision statement

BBC story on Swiatek's one-month ban

Swiatek's statement on Instagram

The timeline of Swiatek's doping case

Response from the manufacturer of the drug

Article on Jack Burke's KOMs

When Burke broke the Alp d'Huez KOM

Jack Burke's Strava account

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