By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday Could 20, 2023
After receiving a second anti-doping cost, for sustaining “irregularities in her Athlete Organic Passport”, Simona Halep has gone on the offensive.
The previous World No.1 and two-time main champs claims that she is being “harassed” by the ITA, and that they’re out to get her for causes she doesn’t perceive.
“Since October 7, once I obtained charged by the ITIA for a suspicion of doping, I’ve lived the worst nightmare I’ve ever gone via in my life,” Halep wrote on social media. “Not solely has my title been dirty within the worst attainable method, however I’m dealing with a continuing dedication from the ITIA for a cause that I can’t perceive, to show my guilt whereas I haven’t EVER even considered taking any illicit substance.”
— Simona Halep (@Simona_Halep) May 19, 2023
Halep has been off the tour since early October after initially testing constructive for the banned substance Roxadustat on the US Open. The Romanian maintains her innocence, saying she by no means took something unlawful in her profession, and that the substance had been “contaminated.” This assertion has been corroborated by specialists that Halep has employed to discover the advantage of the case in opposition to her.
She hopes to have her case heard by an unbiased tribunal this month, however admits she feels helpless.
“I attempted two instances to have the chance to be judged by an Unbiased Tribunal and the ITIA has continually discovered causes to postpone,” she stated. “Now that we’ve clearly established that I’ve been sufferer of a contamination, they got here up with a so-called not regular evolution of my blood. Three world famend specialists which have studied my blood checks have been extraordinarily clear that my blood is completely regular.
Halep, 31, nonetheless holds out hope that her case shall be resolved in order that she could resume her legendary profession.
“The one factor I hope for, at this level, is to have the likelihood to lastly entry the unbiased and neutral judges in a Tribunal, that can give me the possibility to show my innocence,” she wrote. “I’ve full belief in justice and I look ahead to lastly with the ability to current my case at my listening to that’s scheduled on the finish of Could, after a number of delays by the ITIA.”
