The FanHouse - Cincinnati Bengals (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
by Greg Couch Filed under: U.S. Open , WTA It's amazing how much "no comment" can say. I've made a pet project of the curious case of Yanina Wickmayer , the young tennis player banned for a year from the tour for a doping offense even though she never missed a doping test and never failed one. Wickmayer is being punished for Andre Agassi's sins. That's how tennis is trying to save face,...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Belgian tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse, who both fell foul of anti-doping regulations, appealed against their one-year bans to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday.
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Yanina Wickmayer’s Suspension Leaves Me Cold I was already feeling a little drugged-out this week, with all the talk of Andre Agassi’s crystal meth exploits and Tim Lincecum being caught with a bag of weed while driving his Mercedes on an Oregon Freeway. Perhaps you were too? But those stories, while controversial, and perhaps symptoms of a larger [...]
WTA Backspin by Todd Spiker (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Lists have always been a stock and trade component of WTA Backspin, and that's never more the case than with the annual Backspin Awards. The final "Ms. Backspin" standings won't show up in this space for a day or two, but don't expect me to suspend myself for a year for such an instance of "unknown whereabouts." I know just where they are! As for what those pesky Belgians might...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Belgian tennis player Yanina Wickmayer says she was never properly informed of the online reporting requirements for drug-testing that led to her one-year ban from the sport. At a tearful news conference Thursday, the 20-year-old U.S. Open semifinalist accused the World Anti-Doping Agency and Belgian sports authorities of treating her unfairly and ruining her career. "The people who made the rules...
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Belgian tennis player Yanina Wickmayer says she was never properly informed of the online reporting requirements for drug-testing that led to her one-year ban from the sport. At a tearful news conference Thursday, the 20-year-old U.S. Open semifinalist accused the World Anti-Doping Agency and Belgian sports authorities of treating her unfairly and ruining her career.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Belgian star Kim Clijsters slammed the "extremely harsh" sanctions imposed on compatriots Xavier Malisse and Yanina Wickmayer for missing drug tests.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Kim Clijsters has slammed the "extremely harsh" sanctions imposed on fellow Belgians Xavier Malisse and Yanina Wickmayer.
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Belgian star Kim Clijsters on Saturday slammed the "extremely harsh" sanctions imposed on compatriots Xavier Malisse and Yanina Wickmayer for missing drug tests. US Open semi-finalist Wickmayer and Malisse were on Thursday handed one-year bans by the Flemish Doping Tribunal (VDT) for falling foul of doping regulations. Wickmayer, the world number 18, was suspended for failing to fulfill...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It was not cocaine that found its way into anyone’s system this time, nor was it crystal methamphetamine. The offence for which two grand-slam semi-finalists from Belgium have had their tennis careers interrupted for a year is that they forgot to do their doping paperwork.
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Wickmayer said she would appeal the suspension but withdrew from the Tournament of Champions event in Indonesia. ...
The FanHouse - Florida Basketball (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
by Greg Couch Filed under: U.S. Open , ATP The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency acknowledged that it's too late to punish Andre Agassi for his failed drug test from 1997, darned statute of limitations. But WADA said it still wants some punishment, anyway. Maybe for Agassi's lies to doping officials, which he admits in his book? Maybe for perjury? Doubtful. But I knew tennis would get its pound...
WTA Womens Tennis (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yanina Wickmayer withdraws in Bali after year suspension Yanina Wickmayer, who yesterday received a 1 year suspension from professional tennis, voluntarily withdrew from the ongoing Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali. Wickmayer was suspended by a Belgian Tribunal for failing to report her whereabouts to anti-doping officials three times. She has denied any wrongdoing and splans [...]...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Bali, Indonesia - Distraught US Open semi-finalist Yanina Wickmayer on Friday pulled out of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions after being banned for one year for missing doping tests. The number 18 player's place in the field for her fina...
WTA Womens Tennis (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Bali Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions Order of Play Friday November 6th 2009 Friday, November 6, 2009 Centre Court (from 14.00hrs) 1. Samantha Stosur vs. María José Martínez Sánchez 2. Sabine Lisicki vs. Melinda Czink 3. Marion Bartoli vs. Shahar Peer (NB 18.30hrs) 4. Yanina Wickmayer vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues
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