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Are all those players paying out of pocket or funded by their national teams to attend these events? It is of interest to know who is funding what when doing these apples to oranges comparisons.The fact that Aruna decided to skip WTT CS Incheon 2024 (even if he notified WTT a month ahead of time, which still violated the rules) while the others in the same situation made an appearance severely weakens Aruna's case here.
As for the WTTC 2024, he made an entry on his social media on 2/16 that he was seriously ill with food poisoning and would not take part, and according to the entry on 4/2, he was down for 5 days and the medical certificate was signed/issued on 2/26, one day after the WTTC ended on 2/25 (who knows when WTT received it). According to Steve Dainton's written response, he says WTT made the attempt to actively help him to get the medical certificate handed in. So exactly how many days did it take Aruna from start to end of the process?
2/16
https://www.instagram.com/quadriaruna/p/C3ZIQ0Xo2Ua/
4/2
https://www.instagram.com/quadriaruna/p/C5QWPHAtfj4/
Steve Dainton's written response
https://www.sohu.com/a/769658694_114977
Remember that for Busan, the punishment being applied to Quadri should technically be applied to the NTTF. Quadri is being punished because Nigeria did not fund a team. Reflect on that a bit. When Boll doesn't go to Busan, does he get punished or sanctioned?
I have seen Nigeria fail to send teams for junior events as well as female events in many contexts. But I don't want to discuss the matter too much, it is not my job to wash Nigeria's dirty linen in front of everyone. My main point here is that I am not clear on how a player's inability to attend an event for which he had a documented medical excuse becomes a reason to sanction him when he is playing for his country! The country should simply have replaced him with another player and the sanction should be applied to the country. But WTT and ITTF clearly have some logic that makes this all one and the same.