Tennis champ suspended after failed drug test

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Former No.1-ranked tennis subordinate Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency aft failing a cause trial during the US Open past month.

The ITIA said Halep tested affirmative for the banned substance Roxadustat, a cause approved for aesculapian usage successful the European Union to dainty the symptoms of anemia caused by chronic kidney failure.

"Today begins the hardest lucifer of my life: a combat for the truth," Halep wrote connected Twitter.

The 31-year-old added that the quality came arsenic "the biggest daze of my life".

"Throughout my full career, the thought of cheating ne'er adjacent crossed my caput once, arsenic it is wholly against each the values I person been educated with.

"Facing specified an unfair sanction, I consciousness wholly confused and betrayed.

"I volition combat until the extremity to beryllium that I ne'er knowingly took immoderate prohibited substance and I person religion that, sooner oregon later, the information volition travel out.

"It's not astir the titles oregon the money. It's astir the honour, and the emotion communicative I person developed with the crippled of tennis implicit the past 25 years."

Halep is simply a two-time singles expansive slam champion who is presently No.9 successful the WTA rankings. She won Roland-Garros successful 2018 and Wimbledon successful 2019, beating 23-time singles large champion Serena Williams successful the final.

Halep, a 31-year-old from Romania, precocious announced she was taking the remainder of this play disconnected aft having chemoreceptor country to amended her breathing.

According to the EU’s medicines agency, which approved Roxadustat past year, it stimulates the assemblage to nutrient much of the earthy hormone erythropoietin, oregon EPO, which has agelong been a doping merchandise favoured by cyclists and region runners.

During a provisional suspension, a tennis subordinate is ineligible to vie in, oregon attend, immoderate sanctioned events.

Under the World Anti-Doing Code, Halep faces a prohibition of up to 4 years for a affirmative trial for a substance similar Roxadustat.

Athletes tin gain a simplification successful their ban, apt to 3 years, if they rapidly admit an offence and judge their sanction.

Tennis authorities volition grip Halep’s lawsuit and immoderate ruling tin beryllium challenged by the World Anti-Doping Agency successful an entreaty to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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