As the *New York Times* reports, approximately 11,000 athletes competed in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro over the past fortnight. (Can we say that word away from Wimbledon?) Of those sportspeople, "at least 120 have served suspensions or had to return medals for doping and were reinstated for this year's Games."
As the Times found, that means roughly 1 in every 100 athletes competing in Rio have doped. Among tennis players, only Martina Hingis appears on said list. She was also the only athlete representing Switzerland.
The news gets worse.
"At least 63 of the 205 national delegations at the 2016 Olympics have athletes who have served suspensions for doping," the Times reported. That's nearly one in every three delegations or countries. As the Times had it, "The names of suspended athletes came from the Anti-Doping Database and from official statements from national and international sports federations." The possibility existed that even more sportspeople have doped at some point in their careers, but not all reports could be substantiated so as to appear in the doping list.
Hingis was banned from professional tennis action in late 2007 after testing positive for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, at Wimbledon that year. The amount of that substance in her system reportedly wouldn't have raised a flag if she were seeking to enter the United States military or to gain employment at an American company testing for it. Though her ban was just two years long, she didn't return to active play until 2013, partnered up with Daniela Hantuchova for the US Open Series hard-court summer events.
Most recently, Hingis was supplanted at No. 1 on Sunday in the WTA Tour's doubles rankings by former partner Sania Mirza. The two won three consecutive major doubles titles at the 2015 Wimbledon and US Open championships, followed by the 2016 Australian Open. Mirza defeated her former right-hand woman in the Cincinnati doubles final alongside Barbara Strycova, a bronze medalist with Lucie Safarova in Rio.
Hingis is expected to partner with CoCo Vandeweghe at the US Open later this month, and it's unlikely that past doping matters will hound her again in her career's second act. You can consider the erstwhile Swiss Miss to be the WTA's new Teflon queen.
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