ITF gives doctor 4-year sports ban after player fails test
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
The International Tennis Federation says it has banned a Ukrainian doctor from sports for four years for giving a banned substance to WTA Tour player Kateryna Kozlova.
The ITF said in a statement Monday that Elena Dorofeyeva gave a supplement containing the banned stimulant DMBA to Kozlova, the current world No. 98, in 2014.
Kozlova tested positive and served a six-month ban last year, when the ITF ruled she had not intentionally doped. Kozlova said she had taken what she thought to be vitamins provided by Dorofeyeva.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}
The ITF dismissed an appeal by Dorofeyeva and ruled that she deserved a four-year ban because "a doctor setting him/herself up as a sports medicine specialist...bears an extremely heavy responsibility", particularly when working with young athletes. Kozlova was 20 when she tested positive.