The CAS reduces the sentence for doping against Simona Halep to 9 months, who can now play
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He Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) announced this Tuesday a reduction from four years to nine months in the doping sanction against the Romanian tennis player Simona Halepformer world number one, so she could return to the slopes immediately.
The Romanian had appealed to the CAS against the ruling of the International Tennis Federation of September 22, 2023, which separated her from the sport for four years.
In its ruling this Tuesday, the court of Lausanne (Switzerland) orders that the nine-month exclusion be applied to the period between October 7, 2022 and July 6, 2023, so it would already be fulfilled, although it confirms that all results and prizes achieved by Halep in that period.
Halepwinner of two Grand Slams in her career (Wimbledon and Roland Garros) was investigated for consumption of Roxadustata banned substance, during the US Open, in August 2022.
The CAS has concluded that the consumption of this substance, through a contaminated supplement, was not intentional on the part of the tennis player, although she does recognize “some level of negligence” on its part, which justifies maintaining the sanction, although reduced.
Source: Eitb
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