Tuesday is a good day for Simona Halep. Romanian tennis player can fight again soon after seeing how CAS reduced the doping sanction imposed on him from four years to nine months for consuming roxadustat, a banned substance, during the US Open, in August 2022.
With its decision, the Lausanne court concluded Consuming that substance, through a contaminated supplement, is accidental on the part of the tennis player, although he recognizes “a certain degree of negligence” on his part, which justifies the retention of the penalty, albeit a lesser one.
The person who sent him that supplement was his coach at the time, Patrick Mouratoglou.who in the last few hours took a strange hit, as former Australian tennis player John Millman gave him.
“Great to see Simona available to play again. Don’t let Patrick near your drink on your way back!“he wrote on his Twitter account.
A few days ago, the former world number 1 Kim Clijsters, violently charged against the coach. “It was his team that suggested taking that supplement, without any hesitation.. It assumes that you trust your team, that you trust the people around you. You think they’re going to do the right thing, that they do the right thing… and that’s what’s happening to them. For me, it’s a case of manipulation: a situation, especially in the case of a woman, where the coaches are responsible for… it’s manipulation, I can’t find another word to define it, to define the truth. that they control everything that happens around an athlete” said the Belgian on Andy Roddick’s podcast.
Source: La Verdad
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