The 31-year-old champion has been provisionally suspended for testing positive for Roxadustat. His relatives deny.
Battle of words. Simona Halep’s former coach, Australian Darren Cahill, assured Monday that there was “no chance» That the Romanian voluntarily took doping products, three days after the provisional suspension of the former world No.1. “There’s no way Simona knowingly or willingly took a substance from the banned list. None. ZeroCahill wrote in a statement posted on Instagram.
The 31-year-old French Open (2018) and Wimbledon (2019) champion was provisionally suspended for testing positive for Roxadustat, a drug that stimulates red blood cell production, at the last US Open in August, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced on Friday. The player said she “would fight to the end“to prove his innocence after suffering”the biggest shock of his life“.
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According to Cahill, her coach for six years, the Romanian has always been “extremely attentive to anything a doctor might prescribe for her (which was rare) and any supplements she was using or considering using“. “Simona kept telling us to double check, triple check to make sure everything was legal, safe and allowed. If you’re not sure, I don’t take it“, he wrote, reporting the words of his protege whose integrity he judges “flawless“. “I stand by her side“, he concluded.
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