Ex-tennis world No1 given 4 yr ban simply final yr can return instantly
Former tennis world primary Simona Halep is free to return to the game after her four-year drug ban was lowered to 9 months.
The 32-year-old has served a provisional suspension since October 2022 after being banned by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for “intentional” doping offences.
Halep examined constructive for Roxadustat – a substance which stimulates manufacturing of haemoglobin and crimson blood cells – after the US Open in August 2022 from a pattern taken throughout the match.
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However, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has lowered her prolonged ban to only 9 months, which expired final July, permitting Halep to return to tennis instantly.
The CAS Panel decided that “on the balance of probabilities” Halep had not deliberately taken the banned substance Roxadustat and whereas she “did bear some level of fault or negligence for her violations” it was not on objective.
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Throughout the ordeal, Halep had argued that her constructive take a look at was all the way down to contamination and in a press release launched from the CAS panel, they decided that Halep was certainly appropriate.
“Having carefully considered all the evidence put before it, the CAS panel determined that Ms Halep had established, on the balance of probabilities, that the Roxadustat entered her body through the consumption of a contaminated supplement which she had used in the days shortly before August 29, 2022 and that the Roxadustat, as detected in her sample, came from that contaminated product.”
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The 32-year-old additionally launched a press release upon discovering out the discount in her ban as she as soon as once more insisted her delight in being a “clean athlete”. “Throughout this long and difficult process, I have maintained my belief that the truth will eventually come out and that a fair decision will be reached because I am and always have been a clean athlete,” she stated.
“My faith in this process has been tested by the outrageous allegations that have been brought against me and the seemingly unlimited resources that have been aligned against me. But in the end, the truth prevailed, even if it took a lot longer than I would have liked.”
