Simona Halep’s appeal against a four-year doping suspension has been upheld with the Court of Arbitration for Sport reducing her ban to nine months. While the case wasn’t thrown out entirely, CAS ruled that on “the balance of probabilities” that Halep’s anti-doping rule violations were “not intentional.” “Throughout this long and difficult process, I have maintained my belief that the …
Former world number one Simona Halep has been charged with a second breach of doping rules, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said on Friday. The additional charge relates to irregularities in Romanian Halep’s Athlete Biological Passport, based on an assessment of her profile by an independent ABP Expert Panel. The 31-year-old former Wimbledon and French Open champion, has already been …
