Quote: Clearwing "There was a recent example where a tennis player (Dan? Evans) picked up a one year ban for summat similar. Didn't read the background reports; maybe he'd been caning the Pimms?'"
His was a 'washing accident'
....the ITF accepts that Mr Evans has met his burden of proving on the balance of probabilities how the cocaine got into his system, i.e., by inadvertent contamination of his fingers and/or the medication he was handling with cocaine residue when he went into the pocket of his washbag to take out and ingest his medication in the hours before giving the sample on 24 April 2017.[/i
...although the results of his sample analysis showed he'd ingested a tiny amount consistent with his claimThe ITF's expert, Professor Martial Saugy, agreed that the analytical data are consistent with exposure to a tiny amount (1‐3 mg) of cocaine in the hours prior to provision of the sample.[/i