A professional tennis player who said a kiss caused a positive methamphetamine drug test has been suspended for four years by the International Tennis Integrity Agency.

A professional tennis player who said a kiss caused a positive methamphetamine drug test was suspended for four years by the International Tennis Integrity Agency on Friday.

Goncalo Oliveira, who represents Venezuela, was provisionally suspended in January following a positive test in November 2024 while competing at the ATP Challenger event in Manzanillo, Mexico. Both his A and B samples contained the banned substance.

The Portuguese-born player denied taking the drug and made his argument at a hearing with an independent tribunal, which decided Oliveira couldn’t prove the drug’s presence was unintentional. […]

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this? It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss