Halep: "Why did Wozniacki say that? I didn't cheat."

le 20/03/2024 à 19h51

After her defeat by Paula Badosa in Miami, Simona Halep was asked to react to Caroline Wozniacki's comments. Without targeting the Romanian personally, the Dane had explained that she didn't understand why tournaments offered wild-cards (invitations) to people who had cheated and returned from a doping suspension.

Simona Halep: "Why did she say that? Because I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't cheat, I didn't dope. So it's better for everyone to read the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) conclusions, which explain that it was a contaminated supplement.

It wasn't doping. And I've never had anything to do with doping. I've never doped, so I'm not a cheat.

So thank you to the tournament for offering me this wild-card and giving me the opportunity to play such a big tournament. It was great to be back.
And, just one person was negative about me, it's not that important. Because I have hundreds of people who give me love. So I'm concentrating on that."

Most cheaters have an excuse. Typically, it was grandpa meds or couch made a mistake. Very few of them, like Armstrong, are willing to tell the truth. To bad Simona can not do it.😢

It was Patrick's fault and i think Simona shouldn't have onboarded him on her team in the first place

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We know that Simona and Wozniacki is making her stance clear with how she wants clean sports and if someone doped knowingly then they shouldn't be allowed wildcard which wasn't your case anyway

Halep come on 😂😂😂

The Court of Arbitration for Sport concluded Halep didn't cheat. Said the supplement she was given by her coach was contaminated. But I guess some individuals think they know more than a group of people who poured over testimony and evidence for months making a decision.

Keep in mind today's top players all take supplements. Walking encyclopedic tennis dictionary Cahill said the top players have personalized energy and recovery drinks. As in all the players with two or three bottles during competition. At Indianapolis one year when Djokovic was about to collapse playing the Australian that pummeled Federer in the previous match, Djokovic told Jelena to go to the hotel and bring him his "two pills". Believed to be electrolyte pills. This while his team was pouring powder into a bottle of water court side and mixing up some magic elixer for him. It doesn't take much imagination to see how a player could unintentionally have some banned PED in their system.

They did not at all conclude she didn't cheat. They found a lack of evidence to be confident to apply the full penalty

Lol, Armstrong who consistently and intentionally doped for years is being positively compared to someone who took a supplement that was given to her by her team and ended up getting contaminated. Logic 101. Too much to ask, I guess.

So Halep was suspended for a year and a half because she did nothing wrong...okay. That sounds good to me.

Itia was on witches hunting they needed more than an year for a decision..TAS only a month. Conclusion..she was contaminated and not in dopping case..but many brainless people are out there