之前傳出的比利時女子邀請賽禁藥事件證實是Kuznetsova沒通過藥檢.
Last Updated: Monday, 17 January, 2005, 23:11 GMT
Kuznetsova 'failed a drugs test'
US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova has tested positive for a banned drug, acc
ording to Belgian authorities.
Belgian sports minister Claude Eerdekens said that the Russian world number fiv
e tested positive for the stimulant ephedrine on 19 December.
Kuznetsova was playing in an exhibition event in Charleroi at the time.
Eerdekens said: "There is a problem. Ephedrine was discovered. She remains inno
cent until proved guilty. She can ask for it to be tested again."
The situation remains unclear as the tournament was not commissioned by the Wor
ld Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), the International Tennis Federation (ITF) or the
Women's Tennis Accosiation (WTA).
The test was carried out by regional Belgian authorities and Kuznetsova has not
yet been able to have a B sample tested.
Speaking at the Australian Open on Monday, before Eerdekens identified her, Kuz
netsova said: "I'm not worried. I'm not using anything to push myself.
"I have not been notified of any positive test, and I think it is unfair that i
t's come out the way it did."
Eerdekens said that confirmation of the findings was sent last Friday to the pl
ayer's address in Spain, as well as to the Belgian prosecutors' office and the
Belgian and Russian tennis federations.
He conceded Kuznetsova might have taken a medicine which contained the banned s
ubstance.
"We have simply stated a fact," he said. "It is for the federation concerned to
impose the disciplinary measures after a procedure that respects the defence.
"Either the ephedrine was taken to improve her performance or it is because she
took some medicine legitimately to cure an infection."
However, Kuznetsova's naming was condemned by Russian tennis chief Shamil Tarpi
shchev.
"First of all, this Belgian sports minister has broken every ethical rule in th
e book by naming a player without any proof of wrongdoing, without any basic ev
idence," Tarpishchev said.
"We all know the basic principle in doping cases. If there is a positive sample
, then they should notify the International Tennis Federation (ITF) as well as
the national federation within three days," he said.
"This is not the case here. As of today we have not received any statement from
the doping officials, nor did the ITF.
"Today I called the ITF headquarters and they told me they know nothing about i
t.
"If WADA (the World Anti-Doping Agency) was behind the testing, then we would a
lso have known something by now.
"Otherwise, all these looks to me as pure fiction and fabrication of the facts.
"
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