“That didn’t happen, it means there was something…”

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Tennis player Simona Halep’s chances of receiving wild cards at the Paris Olympics and at Roland-Garros were ruined by Octavian Morariu, the former president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee.

Returning to the circuit after the suspension was reduced from 4 years to 9 months, Simona Halep received “invitations” to the tournaments in Miami and Madrid, but was bypassed in others, such as those in Stuttgart or Rome. Thus, Octavian Morariu believes that the Romanian has minimal chances of being called to play at Roland-Garros or the 2024 Olympic Games.

“The International Olympic Committee has zero tolerance for such cases, those of doping. Does anyone think that the IOC will make an exception for Simona Halep?

Simona Halep is an athlete suspended for doping. Yes, she got a shorter Court of Arbitration for Sport sentence of nine months, but the suspension remains attached to her name.

If she was “cleared”, absolved, it means that she no longer had any punishment. And this did not happen at TAS. As long as you have a doping suspension, and you stick with it, then it means it was something. The world does not understand that the athlete is responsible, first of all, for what he takes. Those are the rules,” Octavian Morariu said, according to Iamsport.

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“If he waits for wildcards, he will not progress. Rome, for example, bypassed it, but not only them, and if a precedent is created, everyone will start to bypass it.

At Roland Garros he has not received a wildcard yet. He hasn’t received anything yet. It is quite hard to believe that the French could have a different perspective than those from the IOC. They fought for years with doping in cycling”, added Morariu.