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Nicolás Jarry, 24, is having the worst time of his life. So it takes four months. Accused of doping and finally punished for it, in a sentence that he himself accepted to avoid greater evils. What he has not done is hide. Take on your case and want to tell your story, defend yourself. He doesn’t think he has anything to hide, just the opposite. He does not feel singled out, but convinced that his truth has prevailed. Above all, it dialogues with Third.
What is the lesson learned?
The first is that life brings you problems and you have to try to overcome it, not stay with your arms crossed. Another, that you can do things as well as possible and they can also work against you. And then, that you have to be a little more attentive to certain things. Of legal issues, which is something I have never liked. And that everything happens for something. It wasn’t coming at a good time in my career and I needed a second to stop and think and analyze myself well. And that’s what I’ve been doing all these months.
Sentence on the sidelines, Why do you have to believe him?
Well, because they are facts. They are clear, they were approved by the same body that said I cheated, something I never did. Everything is very clear. It was bad luck, cross contamination of the pills.
But what appears in your body is a substance that just enhances your muscles. Do you understand skepticism?
Yes, but you have to know the type it is and the amount they found in my body. One, from what I understand, is something that works in a cycle. And two, the amounts were so few that I don’t think they will take effect. I am not an expert. From what my lawyer said, which is a very common phrase in the legal field, it is like a ball of salt in an Olympic pool. Is nothing. And three, because three days before jumping this, he had already had another control and everything came out clean. Clearly it was these pills.
Why so much euphoria around sentencing if you finally accept or confess to being guilty of doping? And that remains forever.
No, I do not accept doping guilt. I accept the sanction they give me. And in the case it comes out verbatim that I never doping and I never tried to cheat, that’s everywhere. And that is what I have to continue clarifying to people. The sanction is because there are rules that say that I am responsible for everything in my body. Rules that are there and I have to accept. And yes, unfortunately things are like that. You have to be perfect. But perfection does not exist.
Do you care more about punishment or reputation?
Yes or yes, reputation. Cheating is something I am totally opposed to. Taking advantage is something I have never done in my life. My companions notice it, my opponents. So they came out to speak publicly for me. That says everything. I am a person who tries to always play fair playIt is something that my grandfather instilled in me since childhood. It is something in the family, cheating does not lead to anything. So yes or yes it is. After 11 months, or the sanction, I have no control over it. It is part of the responsible body. They believe I did something that deserves a penalty as severe as 11 months. And it is to leave an athlete 11 months without a job, telling them that they really did something wrong when they really did not do anything wrong.
And in the end it reaches an agreement with the court … It sounds bad that the outcome of such a case is agreed.
Yes, it is an agreement because it is something of a word between organizations. There is no court in between. The agreement was made before reaching a court. I accepted it because before the circumstances of the world that unfortunately are happening today, there was a lot of uncertainty. You don’t know what can happen and also everyone is standing still.
“Eleven months is a long time for a person who did not cheat”
Has it been a conquest / defeat of the lawyers or of reason?
The reason came to light. Later, the work of the lawyers … says it more for the sanction. And the sanction is harsh. Eleven months without letting a player play, be it me or the previous one punished, it is a long time for a person who did not want to cheat or did not even cheat, he did not take advantage. This is my case, because the contamination was very minimal. And yes, for people who do want to cheat, the punishment should be much greater. But so are the rules.
Why didn’t you state on the control form that you were taking vitamins? It is something to which I was bound and they throw a lot of face at the ruling.
No, on failure even backwards. It turns out that I did not do it and why I did not do it. It is something that is and would not want to continue talking, the truth. The person who wants to know about it, who goes to investigate it.
Yes, you said you didn’t know you had to. Is the letter of the anti-doping protocol that you sign so small or is it signed, as it often happens, without looking?
Yes, really. There are many things and one does not see the fine print, as always. I know that I have to do things well, be as responsible as possible; which i did. I think that’s why it was the 11 months they gave me. As it comes out in the bug and I’ve said all along, I even asked a doctor to go check the lab to see that it was clean. I don’t know what else I could have done without seeing this warning the ITF made. I think I did everything in my power to be sure that I was doing things right and nothing was going to happen to me.
“When I heard the news, I couldn’t believe it; I started crying for several minutes “
But it is already stained. Or do you think not?
I do not think so. It is an opinion of all people and I appreciate it. I have seen since this started that they have believed me and that they know that I am innocent. Well, not innocent. Yes, innocent, and that it was all a bit of bad luck.
What goes through the head of someone accused of doping?
The world is coming to you in a second. As I said, cheating is totally against my principles. I get angry when someone tries to cheat or pretend to be, as one says, to do better. In tennis you have to win, yes, but it is the white sport, the most educated. And being accused like that of cheating is very painful. At least for me. When I heard the news I couldn’t believe it. I started crying for several minutes.
Does this make you more sympathetic to those punished for doping? They all say they are innocent, but you did not believe them. Yes now?
Well i don’t know I go into detail: if someone who says he is innocent is found guilty, I believe the final sentence more. As in my case, it turns out that I am innocent and …
Well, not literal. It does not come out that you are innocent, you did not have intentionality, that the theory of cross contamination is very probable and that your fault is insignificant.
Well, yes, it turns out that I had no intention. But deep down it does come out that I am innocent, because we are talking about a range of zero to two years. If it’s under two years old, that means it’s not on purpose. One is innocent of wanting to cheat. It means that.
Will he have to remain silent from now on in his intolerance about doping or will he continue to speak out without being accused of anything?
I will always say. I am a person who always tries to bring up important issues. I’m even going to try to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone anymore. So I want my whole story to be known. You really never believe that bad things will happen to you, like everything in life. You never believe you are going to crash in a car, until you crash. As someone who already happened to you, I will try to make my story known and there will be better communication work from the ITF and ATP. They are really delicate subjects that, with the little communication that there is, one does not think so important until they really happen.
Did you feel or feel looks of contempt these months?
Never. That is something that helped me from the beginning. Since I got my letter on social media, everything was support. In tennis, everyone believes me. And that helped me a lot in handling this situation. If it was the other way around, it would have been harder.
Tennis corporatism or sincere faith?
Everything that is public is sincere. I am not so well known in the world of tennis that they have to come out to support me. This was honest, really. No one can go out and say that I am innocent when they really don’t know anything about the case. There has to be a lot of confidence.
So many similar cases in tennis of cross contamination sounds like an excuse. Or is it really incomprehensible negligence?
It is relative. I do not know if there are so many cases and if they are only in tennis. During all this time, I have known of much worse cases. And well, it is exactly what I want to improve in the future. Communication, so that the clearest information reaches all players.
Why did you not report to the laboratory if your guilt was clear?
That is something that is still being reviewed. If it can be done or not.
“On the part of the laboratory there was business: if they work with illegal substances …”
Will you continue to have the doctor who recommended that you go to that laboratory and the physical therapist who introduced you to that doctor?
It’s something I haven’t made a decision on yet. In my head it was always first to prove my innocence, to finish all this. And once I really finish, I will analyze well what I will do and what is best for my future.
In your case, do you think there have been mistakes, betrayals or business?
On the part of the laboratory, business, yes or yes. If they work with substances of this type, which are illegal, that is business. And then, well, bad luck that just happened to me.
Have you come to hate someone in this time, including yourself?
No, no, I’m not that type of person. Of course, at first, like anyone with something bad happening, you ask yourself all the time ‘why me’. Because at first one does not understand anything. And those moments were really dark, until I managed to overcome them.
Did you feel you were disappointing someone or did you fear it?
No.
“Now I have to try to tell my story and improve the world”
How do you think it will be viewed or considered from now on?
That depends on what I do after this. People know, they are very happy that this is over. And now I have to try to tell my story and improve the world. Improve the system. Depends on how you do it, I will be watched.
Will you now distrust even your shadow?
I don’t know if I will be more suspicious, but I will be more worried.
He went to the psychologist when he was losing his mind tennis. And now?
Yes of course. All my life, since I left school, I have worked as a sports psychologist. And yes, I did add a personal psychologist during this time to help me. Since as I said it was really hard. I hit rock bottom several times during these months and I already knew I couldn’t go out alone. I not only wanted to get out of the hole, but to learn and improve. And I needed help.
How will the tennis player and the person return after this?
The tennis player is going to become a better person. More person. That is going to be the change. It won’t be just tennis, tennis, tennis. It will be more relaxed. I am learning to live life more, every moment of the present. And that will help me to be a better tennis player.
The pandemic has finally been an advantage. Equals the clean and the sanctioned.
It is unfortunate everything that is happening in the world with the deaths. What happens, the danger it has and the consequences in the future … Afterwards, something positive yes or yes is this. But more important is everything that is happening in the world, protecting each other and being more aware. The main thing is the world, then it was to prove my innocence and later we will see how this helps me or not.
The president of the court of honor talks about doping mafias in the federations, a cyclist openly confesses how the cycling, Duco two years away, his 11 months … What happens in Chile?
I didn’t know about that statement. On the cycling side there has always been plenty to talk about doping. It is very sad that people cheat or that they have to cheat because, they say, they have no other choice. It must be a very difficult world. I don’t understand, because I can’t understand how someone might want to cheat.
Now that you have experienced it up close, are the authorities complacent about doping?
No. Everyone does their job with what they know. In Chile they must look more. It is unfortunate that in sport there are such people trying to take advantage and you have to try to control it. But it is a very difficult job. There are people always trying to take advantage and they to discover it. But it is very difficult to be in the shadow of people who always try to dop someone.
Do the economic effects of your sanction weigh?
Clearly, they hurt. Since it is my job, I live from this and, honestly, they are not minors. But hey, from this I have learned that there are more important things: family and health.
Are you going to lose or have you lost auspices with this?
So far, my auspices have trusted me. There are some that I have had to suspend due to how the system of each company is, as happened with Habitat. But this happened to me is not going to harm my auspices.
What hurts you most about this process?
It is the 11 month sanction. That the ITF proposed 11 months to me.
He is very hurt with the sanction. Did you accept it convinced or by recommendation by lawyers and family?
I have accepted it convinced. It was my decision. It took me a couple of days to take it. It was a minor decision and it is a good one. But that doesn’t take away the pain that the ITF has said that the bad luck I had means 11 months of suspension.
Twenty years from now, when you are talked about like now about your grandfather or Ríos, it will always remain that you had an episode of doping.
They are clearly cases that cannot be removed. But I can modify it a bit to make it a well-learned lesson. May this improve things. If after this, I do better in tennis, yes or yes the doping will be able to cover a little.
If he is doing better, does it involve reaching Garin, or is it already impossible?
We are both boys still. It is impossible to know what the future brings to each of us. Garin has been amazing this year, he is already top 20. He can be better, but I can also be among the best in the world.
What will happen to your ranking?
You cannot know.
The objective is the Games?
The goal is to get back to my level, the one I got before this.
And is that going to cost more with this one for?
I do not know the truth. There are people who can stand and come back and it’s like nothing. And there are people who cost more. Now we are all standing and we will all come back the same way. So what you have to do, in addition to thanking those who supported me and believed in me, is to take care of yourself, wash your hands and keep your distance.
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