New reactions continue to appear after the four-year suspension of Simona Halep for doping. Doctor Pompiliu Popescu questions the athlete’s lack of intention and notes her musculature.

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Dr. Pompiliu Popescu on Deliberately Contaminated Additives and the Future TAS Failure

The doctor of the Romanian football team during the “Golden Generation” gave an interview about the disqualification of Simona Halep.

Pompiliu Popescu gave a scathing speech in which he drew a parallel between Halep’s situation and that of Adrian Mutu, who was caught using cocaine.

“Symona Halep was tested, showed a positive result and was suspended. point. It doesn’t matter what he wanted to do, what he didn’t want to do, where he got the substance from. Since the substance was in her body, she was doped. All athletes are responsible for what they use.

These dietary supplements do not have a regimen like medication. In the drug, the recipe is calculated at the nano-level. In supplements, the recipe is followed approximately. There are additives that manufacturers intentionally contaminate to have an effect.

I think he knew (not that he used doping). Look at the muscles of Simona Halep and you will understand! Those who know understand what it is about.

TAS cannot do anything except state the results of the evidence. Simone should be happy that she is not stripped of her titles and that she is left with the tens of millions of euros she won because she could have been sued for her money back, at least since she was found out.

It’s a waste of time to try labs. Look, this is a mistake Mutu didn’t make! The vagabond from Mutu was caught doping twice, each time he admitted that he did not mess with the laboratories. He was suspended, but he did not receive major punishments and returned every time. It shows Mutu’s character! He never cheated in sports, he took for his own pleasure the substances for which he was under sanctions,” said doctor Pompiliu Popescu for GSP.

The full interview with doctor Pompiliu Popescu can be read in Gazeta Sporturilor.

Know:

  • The news that Simona Halep was temporarily suspended for doping appeared on Friday, October 21, 2022.
  • Simona’s case was heard by Sport Resolutions, an independent tribunal in London that hears doping cases in white sport.
  • Simone has only one appeal: the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

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