She said she would go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and take legal action against the company, which she said had supplied her with substandard supplements. Simone said she was “shocked and disappointed”.
“Before August 29, 2022, I underwent 200 blood and urine tests for the presence of prohibited substances, all of which were clear. Before the 2022 hard court season, on the advice of my trusted team and my physiotherapist, I adjusted my nutritional supplements. None The ingredients listed did not contain any banned substances, but we now know – and the court accepted – that one of them was contaminated with roxadustat. I was forced to take tests almost every week until early 2023 after the first positive, and they all came back negative.
Despite this evidence, the ITIA only filed charges after its review team learned of my identity, leading two of the three people to suddenly change their minds in favor of the ITIA charges. ITIA relied solely on the opinions of these experts, who only examined my blood parameters, which I maintained within the same range for more than 10 years. This group ignored the fact that no illegal substances were ever found in my blood or urine samples, with the exception of one positive roxadustat test on August 29, which was present at an extremely low level and which, given my negative test three days earlier, may have been caused solely by accidental exposure to roxadustat,” Halep wrote on social media.
- Coach Halep: “I can’t believe the decision to suspend Simona”
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