WADA wants to investigate Andre Agassi

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wants to investigate whether any charges can be brought against Andre Agassi, following his admission that he lied after taking crystal meth in 1997 and failing a drugs test.



Agassi’s revelations in extracts of his autobiography ‘Open’, published last week in THE TIMES newspaper in Britain, stunned the tennis world and cast a shadow over the eight-times grand slam champion’s glittering career.



After failing a drugs test, Agassi wrote a letter to the ATP asking for leniency, because he had accidentally drunk a spiked soda belonging to his assistant.



Agassi received no punishment from the governing body of men’s tennis.



WADA has an eight-year limit on punishment for doping offences, but last week, former Ukraine pole-vaulter Sergei Bubka, a committee member on the International Olympic Committee, said Agassi should be penalised for taking banned substances.