By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, February 16, 2024
Simona Halep is taking her contamination declare to court docket.
Former world No. 1 Halep, who’s interesting a four-year doping ban, has filed a multi-million lawsuit towards a Canadian firm she claims produced a contaminated complement that induced her to fail a doping take a look at and will finish her aggressive profession.
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Two-time Grand Slam champion Halep is searching for greater than $10 million in damages from Quantum Nutrition, a Canadian firm that produces Schinoussa Superfoods. Halep filed a lawsuit in New York towards the Ontario-based Quantum Nutrition.
Last week, the 32-year-old Halep appeared earlier than the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland to testify as a part of her attraction of a four-year doping ban.
The Romanian celebrity examined constructive for the banned drug Roxadustat on the 2022 US Open. Halep has been provisionally suspended since October 2022. She says her constructive take a look at is a results of ingesting a contaminated Schinoussa complement known as Keto MCT.
Halep says the presence of Roxadustat was not disclosed on the label of the Keto MCT complement, due to this fact she had no manner of realizing it was contaminated.
Roxadustat is an anti-anaemia drug which promotes manufacturing of crimson blood cells within the physique and has turn out to be standard with center distance and lengthy distance runners.
Halep says three “world-renowned experts” have concluded her constructive take a look at for Roxadustat was a results of a contaminated complement.
However, the Quantum Nutrition founder advised Canadian publication The Globe and Mail final October that the complement was not the reason for the Romanian’s constructive take a look at. He says Halep is making an attempt to scapegoat his firm as “the fall guy” for her doping suspension.
“They needed someone to blame,” Quantum Nutrition founder John Koveos advised The Globe and Mail.
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