Former world No 1 Simona Halep has appealed in opposition to her four-year doping ban from tennis.
The 32-year-old Romanian star was handed a ban by the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) for “intentional” doping offences, however she has now appealed to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), requesting that the challenged determination be put aside and that her sanction be decreased.
Halep examined optimistic for the banned substance roxadustat in August 2022 and was subsequently provisionally suspended in October of final yr.
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Halep beat Serena Williams to win her first Wimbledon last with a shocking efficiency in straight units
The 2019 Wimbledon winner was later charged with irregularities in her Athlete Organic Passport (ABP) and final month, it was introduced that Halep had been suspended for 4 years.
An announcement learn: “The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered the attraction filed by the Romanian tennis participant, Ms Simona Halep (the Athlete), in opposition to the choice rendered by the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company Tribunal dated 22 September 2023 (the Challenged Choice), through which she was discovered to have dedicated Anti-Doping Rule Violations and sanctioned with a four-year interval of ineligibility commencing on 7 October 2022, and the disqualification of all outcomes obtained in competitions happening within the interval 29 August 2022 to 7 October 2022, together with forfeiture of any medals, titles, rating factors and prize cash.
“In her attraction to the CAS, the Athlete requests that the Challenged Choice be put aside and that her sanction be decreased.
“The CAS arbitration proceedings have commenced. In accordance with the Code of Sports activities-related Arbitration (the CAS Code), the arbitration guidelines governing CAS procedures, the events are exchanging written submissions and the Panel of arbitrators that may resolve the matter is being constituted.
“As soon as constituted, the Panel will subject procedural instructions for the following section of the process, together with the holding of a listening to.
“Following the listening to, the Panel will deliberate and subject an Arbitral Award containing its determination and the grounds for it.
“At the moment, it isn’t doable to point a timeframe for the issuance of the choice.
“The CAS Panel’s determination will probably be last and binding, aside from the events’ proper to file an attraction to the Swiss Federal Tribunal inside 30 days on restricted grounds.”
Halep gained her maiden Grand Slam title on the French Open in 2018 earlier than following it up with extra main success at Wimbledon the next yr.
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