Simona Halep’s lawyer, revelations from behind the scenes of the doping case: “It has become 100% certain that this is what we are talking about”

Simona Halep’s lawyer made new revelations about the doping case of the 32-year-old athlete.

Bogdan Stoica, one of the lawyers with whom Simona Halep defended herself in the doping case in which she was involved, made new revelations from behind the scenes.

Stoica said when “it became 100% certain that it is about contamination” in the case of Simona Halep, although the sabotage option was also taken into account.

“We read and tried to fit Simona’s case into the casuistry that other sports and tennis had faced before. At the beginning, we had absolutely all scenarios on the table. When I say all scenarios, I mean not only contamination, but also sabotage.

Because we even thought about this, about sabotage. After I did the first hair tests in Paris, it became 100% certain that it was contamination.

It took a long time to discover the source. It was the most important thing in the whole economy of our file. In the absence of discovery of the source, you can only talk about a four-year penalty.

The regulation provides by default (no – ex officio) four years. The file will create a precedent, which no other court will be able to ignore,” said Bogdan Stoica in a podcast.

TAS reduced the suspension of Simona Halep for doping from 4 years to 9 months, so our athlete has already returned to the field, at the Miami Open, with the help of a wildcard, where she was defeated by Paula Badosa.