Late For A Drug Test? Sit Down A Year.

WADA, in its neverending quest to make sports less fun and the lives of athletes more miserable, has struck a new low today after their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on the cases of Napoli midfielder Daniele Mannini and Brescia’s Davide Possanzini. You see, the duo were late – just late – to a drug test last year while both were with Brescia after a game against Chievo. So the Italian Olympic Committee saw it fit to hand them a 15 day sentence. Stiff for being late to a test they both passed.

Well WADA didn’t like that and appealed to the CAS. CAS ruled in their favor, because if you know anything about WADA you’ll know Vlad the Impaler has nothing on their draconian punishments, and now the duo, for being late, and despite passing the tests, have been banned for a full year.

Pierpaolo Marino, Napoli’s sporting director, has decried this as a “colossal injustice”.

Mattia Crassani, Mannini’s lawyer, sees it as nothing but a “shocking and unbelievable sentence”.

“Mannini and Possanzini have been treated… like full-blown doping athletes. They never took doping substances. CAS knows this.”

All of which ring true. An absurd sentence to two players for merely being late to a drug test. Not as though they missed it, as Rio Ferdinand did back in 2003, for which the FA only saw it fit to hand him an eight month sentence. Another example of WADA’s inexplicable stranglehold on the world of sports.

Then again….drugs would be the only way to describe Mannini’s epic brain fart against Roma last weekend (1:25).

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Category: World Football

Tags: Brescia, Daniele Mannini, Davide Possanzini, Napoli, WADA, World Anti Doping Agency, World Football

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