Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer has received a twelve-month suspension from tennis.
The 2009 US Open semifinalist has been suspended by a Belgian anti-doping tribunal after she failed to report her whereabouts three times to doping officials.
The suspension can take immediate effect. Wickmayer is currently competing in the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, Indonesia.
Wickmayer has said that she plans to appeal the suspension.
This is ridiculous. If they’re going to treat tennis-players as criminals, why not fit them with electronic tags? And to ban Yanina in the middle of the Bali season-ending championships is utterly classless and cruel.
The Flemish anti-doping tribunal just wants to set an example, so they say. To whom? Do they really think they can change anything by breaking Wickmayers and Malisses careers!? I’m Flemish and right now I’m not proud to be.
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