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6/5/09 11:26 AM | Johan Lindahl
Richard Gasquet, facing a two-year ban for a positive drugs test in March, says he might have come into contact with cocaine at a Miami party.
The under-fire Frenchman told French radio Europe 1 that a person he did not identify had offered him the drug but he had refused.
"I have never taken any cocaine in my life, I can swear it", said the No. 21. "It was something small, they found 150 nanograms, I have been told it is the equivalent of one tenth of a line".
"I saw someone person who was at that party and this person told me they were offered cocaine that night".
Gasquet is provisionally suspended until an investigation into the incident is completed, a matter which could take months. Added the anguish 22-year-old: "I've been trying understand what happened, I can't sleep at night".
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Hope so. If not, big trouble...
spoonnie , 6/5/09 1:24 PM
don't think he's guilty either. poor gasquet... he's a victim.....
kazuo , 6/5/09 2:23 PM
Miami downtown was built on cocaine money, it is still city's symbol.
posmatrac , 6/5/09 2:57 PM
Red Bull Cola! (kidding)
I hope Richie can get through this unblemished.
Rafterfan , 6/5/09 3:06 PM
Honestly, I feel that he is not guilty, unless he truly intend to destroy his own career. He would know better with all the the new testing rules. I feel sorry for the poor boy, he has such a amazing backhand, gives the Federer of yore something to be shamed by, nearly.
Recordbreaks , 6/6/09 10:16 PM
Did you read the news? Richie is back in the game!!
Rafterfan , 7/15/09 7:22 PM
rafter..what's the news?
malteser1 , 7/15/09 7:50 PM
just found it! great news for gasquet fans!
Gasquet to play on
43 minutes ago
Richard Gasquet is free to resume his tennis career despite being found guilty of a doping offence by the International Tennis Federation.
An independent anti-doping tribunal, convened by the ITF on Wednesday, had banned the Frenchman for two months and 15 days after he tested positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, at an ATP event in Miami in March.
The suspension, which started in May, ended on Wednesday. The ITF said in a statement they accepted Gasquet's plea he had inadvertently consumed cocaine in a nightclub and claimed it would be "unjust and disproportionate" to impose a 12-month ban.
The statement said: "The Tribunal accepted Mr Gasquet's plea of No Significant Fault or Negligence, on the basis that he was able to demonstrate on the balance of probabilities how the cocaine entered his system (through inadvertent contamination in a nightclub the night before his scheduled match), and that, while he was at fault in exposing himself to the risk of such contamination, that fault was not significant.
"It further ruled that, in the exceptional and "probably unique" circumstances of the case, it would be unjust and disproportionate to impose a 12-month sanction on Mr Gasquet.
"Instead it ruled that Mr Gasquet be suspended from participation for a period of two months and 15 days, commencing on 1 May 2009, and thus ending at 08:00 GMT on 15 July 2009."
malteser1 , 7/15/09 8:11 PM
i've always believed in richard's innocence. i saw him to be a young man of great character and i'm happy to know that he wasn't punished for something he did not do! life is full of twists and turns, but this is wonderful, wonderful, news! he's a great talent and look forward to seeing him play soon! good luck, richard!
memi , 7/16/09 12:25 AM
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gut instinct?
This guy is NOT GUILTY.
malteser1 , 6/5/09 12:00 PM