After three days of hearings at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Simona Halep is confident of a verdict that could reduce her four-year doping ban.

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Ion Cyriac claims that Simona Halep’s blood sample should not have been taken

The former tennis player present at the Sports Gala spoke again about the case of Simona Halep, who is awaiting a verdict from the CAS.

“What can I say about Simona, that I know no more than you, because she is forbidden to speak, or she was advised not to speak.

But given that we now know that the blood sample was somewhat mishandled, let’s not call it anything else, in Romania, taken at 5:30 in the morning and it should have been minus 3 degrees three hours later, in I don’t I know what kind of laboratory… it couldn’t be allowed anywhere. Taken after so much time.

And let’s find out one more thing. Let’s hope that TAS does better than in Sydney, where it tried to be Solomon and took two more gold medals from Andrea Redukan.

Let’s hope that now they will come to their senses a little,” said Ion Cyriak, reports Agerpres.

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What you need to know about Simona Halep’s doping case

• 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.

• Halep was suspended for 4 years for two separate violations of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program (TADP): the presence and use of the substance roxadustat in a urine sample collected after an anti-doping test conducted at the 2022 US Open (1) and a violation of her biological passport (2).

• Simone has only one appeal: the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.

• According to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on its official website, Halep will be heard by CAS on February 7-9, 2024.

• The Swiss court said that the ex-leader of the WTA asked to cancel the decision of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) and “reduce” its sanctions.

• If the 4-year disqualification remains in force, then the ex-WTA leader can theoretically return to the tennis court on October 6, 2026. Halep will be 35 years old at that time.

• On August 29, 2022, Simona Halep played her last official match on the world stage. At the US Open, in the inaugural round, our athlete unexpectedly defeated Daria Snigur (at that time, 124th place in the WTA, based on the qualification).