Tennis players challenge WADA in EU court

Three failures to report the correct where-abouts have led the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to give Belgium tennis player and nr. 16 in the world, Yanina Wickmayer a one-year suspension from the sport.

“We are going to appeal this ruling and will do everything we can to get it overturned,” Wickmayer said at a press conference on November 12.

Wickmayer is joined by another Belgian tennis player, Xavier Malisse who also received a one-year ban from CAS.

Jean-Louis Dupont, the athletes’ lawyer will take their appeal case against WADA to EU authorities including the European Court of Human Rights.

“The indispensible fight against doping is not the issue here. The problem is the lack of proportionality of certain measures,” Dupont said to AP. “No one has accused them of doping, yet their careers are scattered”.

According to the lawyer, the EU treaty gives the tennis players a right to work throughout Europe. “This right is disproportionally violated”, he said.

SOURCE: AP