Christophe Rochus claims widespread doping in tennis

Leo Schlink
Mon Nov 01 09:52:00 EST 2010 Mon Nov 01 09:52:00 EST 2010

BELGIAN Christophe Rochus claims widespread doping exists in tennis in a bombshell claim certain to draw severe censure from authorities.

Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure reported Rochus's claims that doping takes place in tennis and, bizarrely, that he "would not be against" the legalisation of performance-enhancing drugs.

"There's a lot of cheating. Simply, people don't like to talk about it," Rochus said.

"I simply would like to stop the pretending. This hypocrisy is exasperating."

Rochus, who said he received a warning letter from the ATP Tour after speaking out on the issue in the past, estimated he received up to 15 tests a year for 10 years under the anti-doping program but believed some players managed to evade the system.

"I've seen things like everyone else," he said, without elaborating.

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MM Posted at 11:11 AM November 01, 2010

Perhaps if tennis did more than 150 out of competition drug tests a year, they wouldn't be ripe for accusations like this.

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scott the realist of Adelaide Posted at 12:59 PM November 02, 2010

There is drugs in all sports where physical performance or a gain is necessary and always will be. Just have a genetically enhanced free for all olympics and a natural Olympics problem solved, also if W.A.D.A reckons that anyone not looking after their health as being a reason for banning them then all atheletes that smoke take most perscription medicines or drink alcohol,coffee,tea, Choclate which contains Pea also chilli's all theese articles are pychoactive drugs also if they took mao inhibiters or anti depressants they should be banned as theese contain halucinogenics so you would have no-one competing, remember just because a government or body says it's illegal doesn't mean that they are right, they prove this by constantly dismissing their own funded studies.

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