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 in opposition to 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.
Two-time Grand Slam champion Halep is looking for greater than $10 million in damages from Quantum Vitamin, a Canadian firm that produces Schinoussa Superfoods. Halep filed a lawsuit in New York in opposition to the Ontario-based Quantum Vitamin.
Final week, the 32-year-old Halep appeared earlier than the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland to testify as a part of her enchantment 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 referred to 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 method of realizing it was contaminated.
Roxadustat is an anti-anaemia drug which promotes manufacturing of purple blood cells within the physique and has turn into in style with center distance and lengthy distance runners.
Halep says three “world-renowned specialists” have concluded her constructive take a look at for Roxadustat was a results of a contaminated complement.
Nonetheless, the Quantum Vitamin founder informed 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 attempting to scapegoat his firm as “the autumn man” for her doping suspension.
“They wanted somebody guilty,” Quantum Vitamin founder John Koveos informed The Globe and Mail.
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