Moxie629 said:
I thought the rule was 2 missed tests, isn't it? And there is no mention of another. Seems harsh.
From memory, the rule is three missed tests, but I don't think this qualifies. To miss a test, you need to be absent when they call - even though you've given them the address. He refused to do the test and so a conclusion was drawn from this. Perhaps it should have been explained to him there and then, "a urine sample isn't the only thing we need and if you refuse the blood test, you'll be presumed guilty."
Perhaps this wasn't known by him. According to his own report, the doctor in charge of taking the sample gave him a pass, on condition Triocki explain himself to the ITF. He might have been wiser to get the same doctor to give him a note corroborating his story...
Mastoor said:
This seems more than random to me. What was Troicki supposed to "enhance" at the time of his losing streak? His losing ability?
Well, there's an obvious answer to that, isn't there? If he's losing so much, the inference would be he took something to help break the streak. I'm not inferring that, by the way, because he took a test the next day and passed, but a random test is not based upon results...