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‘Why such a big difference in treatment and judgment?’: Simona Halep slams ITIA for handling her doping case ‘differently’ from Iga Swiatek | Tennis News

‘Why such a big difference in treatment and judgment?’: Simona Halep slams ITIA for handling her doping case ‘differently’ from Iga Swiatek | Tennis News

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Former Wimbledon and French Open champion Simona Halep slammed the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for the way her own doping case was handled compared to Iga Swiatek. “I sit and try to understand but it is really impossible for me to understand something like this. I sit and wonder, Why such a big difference in treatment and judgment?’ “I can’t find, and I don’t think there can be a logical answer. It can only be bad will on the part of ITIA, the organisation that did absolutely everything to destroy me despite the evidence,” Halep said on Instagram on Friday as per AP. On Thursday, world number 2 Swiatek accepted a one-month suspension by ITIA after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, a heart medication known as TMZ. The Polish player failed an out-of-competition drug test in August and the ITIA accepted her explanation that the result was unintentional and was caused by the contamination of a nonprescription medication, melatonin, that Swiatek was taking for issues with jet lag and sleeping. Reacting to …

Simona Halep Free To Return After Four-Year Doping Ban Reduced By CAS

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday reduced the four-year doping ban imposed on Romania’s former world number one Simona Halep to nine months, which have already been served. The 32-year-old was suspended for four years last September by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after two separate doping infractions the previous year. However, after Tuesday’s CAS ruling she is now free to resume her career immediately. “Throughout this long and difficult process, I have maintained my belief that the truth would eventually come out, and that a just decision would be reached, because I am and always have been a clean athlete,” Halep said in a statement. “My faith in the process was tested by the scandalous accusations that were leveled against me, and by the seemingly unlimited resources that were aligned against me. But in the end, the truth prevailed, even if it took much longer than I wish it had.” “I cannot wait to return to the tour,” she added. The two-time Grand Slam singles champion appealed to CAS in February, arguing that …