Renowned French coach Patrick Mouratoglou has bitten the bullet and taken the blame for Simona Halep 's doping offense.
In his first public interview about the incident that landed Romania's most prominent tennis player in hot water, Mouratoglou 'feels responsible' but remained confident of a successful appeal that Halep lodged at the Court of Arbitration of Sport last month.
Halep was infamously hit with a four-year doping ban from tennis when an independent tribunal concluded there was "illicit blood manipulation" for a positive test of the prohibited Roxadustat substance and for a second charge related to irregularities with her biological passport.
In a video he shared on his Instagram account, the Frenchman argued that the banned substance was contaminated with collagen he had recommended to Halep. However, it was impossible for him or his team to know it given the minute quantities involved.
"I feel confident for the future of...
In his first public interview about the incident that landed Romania's most prominent tennis player in hot water, Mouratoglou 'feels responsible' but remained confident of a successful appeal that Halep lodged at the Court of Arbitration of Sport last month.
Halep was infamously hit with a four-year doping ban from tennis when an independent tribunal concluded there was "illicit blood manipulation" for a positive test of the prohibited Roxadustat substance and for a second charge related to irregularities with her biological passport.
In a video he shared on his Instagram account, the Frenchman argued that the banned substance was contaminated with collagen he had recommended to Halep. However, it was impossible for him or his team to know it given the minute quantities involved.
"I feel confident for the future of...
- 11/5/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
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