Anti-doping bodies say they 'want to find the cheats' but many within the sport believe Simona Halep's case has exposed flaws with testing
Anti-doping bodies say they 'want to find the cheats' but many within the sport believe Simona Halep's case has exposed flaws with testingafter testing positive for a banned substance was this week reduced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport , who ruled she had not deliberately ingested the substance.
“It’s not a good look.
“In Simona Halep’s case, does it protect the integrity of the sport when you have ITIA who’s supposed to administer the punishments and the protocols of anti-doping, getting it so wrong and then going to CAS and actually getting a slap on the wrists and saying, ‘Listen, you guys were too punitive’? It doesn’t look good.”
“It’s a little bit like passing through security at an airport: you don’t mind to take off your shoes and your belt because everyone is doing and it’s keeping you safe. “Things happen that are out of an athlete’s control. They just think we are all out to intentionally dope, when the true dopers most likely never get caught. Incredibly destructive process, ruins peoples lives.”
“In most of these cases, the players are actually able to prove that it was accidental and we know that a large number of supplements are contaminated it’s difficult to prove.