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WADA said the tribunal's finding of 'no fault or negligence' on Sinner's part was incorrect under the applicable rules, and it would seek 'a period of ineligibility of between one and two years' for the Australian Open and US Open champion.
The 2022 World Championships bronze medallist, who booked the Olympic quota with an Asian Games bronze last year, failed to file her whereabouts in the period from April, 2022, to March, 2023, as per WADA rules.
Banka explained that the International Testing Agency and the various international sports federations were collecting samples from athletes within Russia, as well as those training or competing overseas.
The two-time Grand Slam champion said she has never used any banned substances, and that Quantum's negligence and false claims that its supplement was legal has harmed her career and caused humiliation.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport court added that all of Valieva's competitive results achieved since December 25, 2021, are voided, including the gold medal she helped the Russian Olympic Committee win in the team event at the 2022 Games.
Aishwarya has time till March 6 (Monday) to file an appeal against the ban.
World Athletics last year fined Russia's suspended athletics federation and limited the number of Russian athletes allowed to compete at this year's Olympics to 10, in response to doping offences by senior federation officials.
Athletics accounted for 21 of the 71 positive tests recorded by the National Anti-Doping Agency in the last one year, according to the latest World Anti-Doping Agency report.
The move, which paves the way for Russian athletes to make a full return to competition, came as a surprise. A day earlier, Britain's BBC published a letter from WADA's compliance committee recommending that the ban remain in place.
Athletes caught after August this year would be banned for two Olympic Games -- in Tokyo and Paris -- since they fall within the four-year sanction range.
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