{"id":299254,"date":"2023-11-30T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/?p=299254"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:24:16","slug":"madiot-says-djokovic-should-be-suspended-over-doping-test-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usasportsradar.com\/tennis\/madiot-says-djokovic-should-be-suspended-over-doping-test-refusal\/","title":{"rendered":"Madiot says Djokovic should be suspended over doping test &apos;refusal&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Novak Djokovic &#8216;must be SUSPENDED&#8217; after his &#8216;refused&#8217; a pre-match drugs test before facing Britain&#8217;s Cam Norrie last week, says French cycling boss &#8211; but world No 1 insists testers shouldn&#8217;t have interrupted him before a match<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Djokovic didn&#8217;t hide his displeasure after pre-match doping test request<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>World No 1 was critical of officials who interrupted his Davis Cup preparations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Serbian didn&#8217;t break any rules as players have choice to give post-match sample\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Novak Djokovic &#8216;should be suspended&#8217; for &#8216;refusing&#8217; a pre-match doping test, according to French cycling team manager Marc Madiot.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis world No 1 was angry at having his preparatory regime interrupted by doping control 90 minutes before his Davis Cup match with Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie last week.<\/p>\n<p>World Anti Doping Agency officials paid Djokovic an unexpected visit in the lead-up to the match in Malaga to inform him he&#8217;d be tested.<\/p>\n<p>The International Tennis Integrity Agency [ITIA] confirmed that Djokovic didn&#8217;t give his sample until after the match but hadn&#8217;t broken any rules as players are given a choice to be tested either before or after.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the interruption by the anti-doping officials still irked the 24-time Grand Slam champion.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/12\/78210819-12809637-Novak_Djokovic_criticised_officials_for_having_to_do_a_doping_co-a-99_1701347236382.jpg\" height=\"473\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Novak Djokovic criticised officials for having to do a doping control before a Davis Cup match<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/12\/78210817-12809637-Djokovic_told_Serbian_media_it_was_the_first_time_in_20_plus_yea-a-100_1701347329413.jpg\" height=\"452\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic told Serbian media it was the first time in 20-plus years he had had such a request<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t believe that they could make such a decision. In 20 and more years of my career, it never happened to me that an hour-and-a-half before the match, I needed to go for doping control,&#8217; Djokovic told Serbian media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have my own routine. I don&#8217;t need that distraction, to have my urine and blood taken, to think about whether I can give urine at that moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t see any reason or logic, but I hope they change such decisions. It&#8217;s a shame what they did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They told me that one of the important reasons for that decision was that it [the match] would end late, so that they would give us more time to rest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I support testing myself or anyone &#8211; a hundred times, no problem, but not before the match.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The testing didn&#8217;t ultimately affect Djokovic&#8217;s performance as he beat Norrie 6-4, 6-4 but his remarks have attracted criticism from Madiot, who leads the Groupama-FDJ cycling team.<\/p>\n<p>Madiot, who didn&#8217;t seem to know about the choice of pre or post-match testing, told\u00a0RMC Sport: &#8216;We have the right to test before and after a competition. He refused the test before the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If the anti-doping body does its job, Mr Djokovic must be suspended. In cycling, you are subjected to a test and if you refuse, you are [deemed to test] positive. If you are positive, you are sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/12\/78420035-12809637-image-a-102_1701347497645.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Marc Madiot, the head of the Groupama-FDJ cycling team, was critical of Djokovic<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You do not have the right to refuse a test, that&#8217;s the regulation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Former road cyclist Madiot added: &#8216;There are products in the range of doping products that can be detected over an extremely limited time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you do not check before the start of the competition, the time of the competition allows you to eliminate traces of the doping product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That is the reason why the test before the competition was introduced. It&#8217;s surreal to be warned &#8211; it&#8217;s no longer an unexpected test.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic did receive some sympathy from the former Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There is a unanimous rule: checks are always carried out after the match,&#8217; she said. &#8216;As there is a dehydration effect, the urine concentration is greater.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The tests to check a doping product are closer to reality because the urine is more concentrated. It&#8217;s making a &#8216;trial&#8217; which is completely false.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/30\/12\/78419863-12809637-image-a-101_1701347352375.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Djokovic wasn&#8217;t thrown off his stride as he beat Britain&#8217;s Norrie in two sets in Malaga<\/p>\n<p>The ITIA said:\u00a0&#8216;The first thing to say is that Djokovic did not refuse the test. The rules state that when a player is notified, they must provide a sample as soon as they can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In team competitions such as the Davis Cup, players may be informed before a match, whereas in other competitions testing usually takes place after the match. The procedure has not been changed, either for this event or for the player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In Davis Cup, teams are notified before the start of the match. This allows players to choose if they prefer to do it before their match, otherwise it will be after, a member of the organisation told us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They have a choice. Some players prefer to do it before, it frees them up after the meeting, which is also not bad, they avoid staying on site too long after the end of a meeting.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tennis has stepped up its anti-doping measures in recent years \u2013 although there was a hiatus during the pandemic \u2013 and WADA tests are in addition to those carried out by the International Tennis Integrity Agency, which has developed a biological passport system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12809637\/Novak-Djokovic-SUSPENDED-refusal-pre-match-doping-test-Davis-Cup-says-French-cycling-boss-world-No-1-furious-preparations-interrupted-officials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic &#8216;must be SUSPENDED&#8217; after his &#8216;refused&#8217; a pre-match drugs test before facing Britain&#8217;s Cam Norrie last week, says [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madiot says Djokovic should be suspended over doping test &amp;apos;refusal&amp;apos; 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