My name is Elin - A pro cycling lover's reflections

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Category: Tennis



Cyclist Tom Boonen is not the only person who has been found positive for cocaine in the last couple of weeks. Yesterday French L'Equipe reported that French tennis player Richard Richard Gasquet tested positive for the drug after Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida. There was traced of the banned drug in his urine sample, this happened after he had pulled out of that tournament in March. If the B-sample comes back positive then Gasquet could face a two-year ban, and yes, it must be said that the difference between Boonen and Gasquet’s case are that Gasquet tested positive during the tournament, while Boonen tested positive in an out-of-competition test when he had no races. Gasquet withdrew from his opening match against Spain's Albert Montanes because of a shoulder injury, but since the match in Miami he has played two tournaments, reaching the second round of the clay-court tournament in Barcelona and the third round in Rome. Gasquet has been seen as a talent in tennis since he was nine years old and was photographed on the front cover of a French tennis magazine. But he has lacked the lust for competition in the last couple of years and maybe he should need to take a break at this moment and stop playing tennis for a while. Surely Richard Gasquet and his management company had not yet responded over the case, so we don’t know yet what is going around in their minds, but I believe we will find out tonight.
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