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    Simona Halep’s complicated Cas hearing explained – and what is Roxadustat?

    by Jamie Braidwood Feb 09, 2024 4 minutes
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    Ever since October 2022, Simona Halep has been fighting “the hardest match” of her life. Now, the former World No 1 and Wimbledon champion awaits the verdict of a three-person independent panel at the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) in Switzerland. If Halep loses, her career will be all but over, and tennis will have its biggest doping scandal since Maria Sharapova tested positive for meldonium in 2016.

    Halep is imposed by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after , while investigators also found irregularities in her biological passport. Halep denies wrongdoing and has blamed contaminated nutritional supplements for the

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