Watch: Jannik Sinner Reveals Relationship Status After Brooks Nader Dating RumorsNovak Djokovic isn't sugarcoating what he thought of Jannik Sinner's doping scandal. More than a year after the 2025 Vienna Open winner tested positive for having performance-enhancing drug Clostebol in his system and subsequently accepted a three-month ban from the sport, his fellow tennis player reacted to the confusing chain of events. For Djokovic, the controversy felt similar to his own drama in 2022, when he was deported from Australia for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. "That cloud will follow him as the cloud of COVID will follow me, for the rest of his-or my-career," he explained during a Nov. 11 appearance on Uncensored with Piers Morgan. "It was so major and when it happens it just, over the time it will fade, but I don't think it will disappear. There's always going to be a certain group of people that will always try to bring that forward." While Djokovic maintained the 24-year-old was "very genuine" whenever they crossed paths, he admitted that Sinner's doping scandal "had so many red flags."readJannik Sinner Reveals Relationship Status After Brooks Nader Dating RumorsWhen Morgan suggested that a player of lower rank would've been banned for life from tennis, Djokovic interjected, "Exactly." (Sinner only received a three-month ban between February and May of this year, outside of peak tennis competition season.) "The lack of transparency, the inconsistency, the convenience of the ban coming between the Slams so he doesn't miss out, it was so odd," he continued. "I really don't like how the case was handled. You could hear many players-both male and female-who had similar situations coming out in the media and complaining that it was a preferable treatment." The 38-year-old noted that while he was certain the four-time Grand Slam winner "didn't do it on purpose," he is "of course" responsible for testing positive. "Those are the rules," Djokovic added. "When you see someone do something very similar and is banned for years, and then he's banned for provisional, three months or whatever it was, it's just not right." Nevertheless, the Serbian player had no problem praising Sinner's performance in the last few months.

Clive Brunskill/Getty Images"I do have a sense of empathy and compassion for how he's handled the storm in the media that keeps coming back every once and a while," he said. "He's handled that really well. In the midst of all of that, he's still dominating, he's still playing incredibly, winning slams." E! News has reached out to reps for Sinner regarding Djokovic's comments but has not yet heard back. After agreeing to his three-month ban, Sinner indicated he wanted to move forward in a statement. "I will now put this challenging and deeply unfortunate period behind me," Sinner wrote in an August 2024 Instagram post. "I will continue to do everything I can to ensure I continue to comply with the ITIA's anti-doping program and I have a team around me that are meticulous in their own compliance." Sinner's was just one athlete scandal in 2024 to cause a stir. To see how more athletes have weathered backlash, keep reading for the most major controversies to come out of the 2024 Paris Olympics...

Naomi Baker/Getty ImagesJordan Chiles Medal ControversyAfter the U.S. gymnast won bronze in the women's gymnastics individual floor exercise final, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Romanian finalists Ana Maria Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who came in fourth and fifth place, filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Romanian side argued that an inquiry that Chiles' coach had submitted at the competition that had led to the athlete's score to be raised by 0.1 of a point should not have been granted because it was submitted four seconds past a one-minute deadline. The court agreed and ruled that the U.S. athlete's initial score of 13.666 would be reinstated, a decision also adopted later by the International Gymnastics Federation, which said in a statement that it had modified the rankings to put Barbosu in third place. The International Olympics Committee then announced that it "will reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu (Romania)," adding, "We are in touch with the NOC of Romania to discuss the reallocation ceremony and with USOPC regarding the return of the bronze medal." The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it plans to appeal the decision.

Logan Riely/Getty ImagesCanada Boots Women's Soccer CoachThe 2024 Olympics had barely begun when Bev Priestman, head coach of the Canadian women's soccer team, was removed from her post by Canada Soccer after her staff was accused of using drones to spy on the New Zealand team ahead of their group stage match."Additional information has come to our attention regarding previous drone use against opponents, predating the Paris 2024 Olympic Games," Canada Soccer CEO and general secretary Kevin Blue said in a July 25 statement explaining