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Last Updated: February 10, 2024, 00:30 IST
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Twotime tennis Grand Slam champion Simona Halep left sport’s highest court docket on Friday not sure when she’s going to know if she has received her attraction in opposition to a fouryear ban for doping.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Two-time tennis Grand Slam champion Simona Halep left sport’s highest court docket on Friday not sure when she’s going to know if she has received her attraction in opposition to a 4-yr ban for doping.
The former world No. 1 spent virtually three full days within the listening to on the Court Arbitration for Sport in entrance of three judges now contemplating their verdict.
“No particular date was announced with respect to the notification of the final decision,” the court docket stated in a press release. Verdicts sometimes take not less than a number of weeks.
Halep, who will flip 35 earlier than the ban being challenged expires in October 2026, left the court docket together with her American lawyer Howard Jacobs.
“Well, it was a long hearing and what I can say is that I had the chance to show my defense,” the Romanian star stated. “I really believe that the truth is going to come out.”
The International Tennis Integrity Agency banned Halep final yr after she examined optimistic for roxadustat on the 2022 U.S. Open. Investigators later detected alleged irregularities in her organic passport, which may reveal irregular blood values measured over a number of years.
Roxadustat might help produce extra of the pure hormone erythropoietin, or EPO, which has lengthy been a doping product favored by endurance athletes.
Halep denies wrongdoing and blamed contaminated dietary dietary supplements. Athletes must show the supply of contamination to indicate they weren’t at fault for doping.
“I cannot speak more so I have to wait (for) the decision and then I will be able to give more information,” she stated outdoors court docket.
Halep received Wimbledon in 2019, beating 23-time main champion Serena Williams within the closing, and the 2018 French Open.
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