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'Showering is not an entitlement': Tennis anti-doping unit announces players must shower 'in full view' of officials
Andrew Chapados
The ITIA informed players on Friday that drug testing will be conducted immediately following matches and that if a player wishes to shower before the drug test, he or she will have to do so in front of a drug-testing official.
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The letter added that if a player is not comfortable with being monitored while showering, the player should consider the idea of whether or not a shower is "necessary before providing a doping control sample. Failure to remain in full view of the chaperone will be taken extremely seriously by the ITIA."
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While the policy sounded strange on its surface, it did have a certain level of logic behind it. As outlet Metro noted, soccer's governing body in the region, the Professional Footballers' Association, has a similar policy in place with an added explanation:
"It is important for the laboratory to analyse your first sample and by having a shower a player could urinate easily without anyone noticing."
The organization added, "Sports people have done this before in order to manipulate this seemingly insignificant procedure to avoid a positive result."
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