The Romanian billionaire Ion Țiriac raged, again, regarding the situation that the Romanian tennis player Simona Halep went through due to doping.
Ion Țiriac was present at the drawing of the main draw matches at the tournament in Bucharest that he organizes, the Țiriac Foundation Trophy.
The businessman Ion Țiriac stormed, once again, with Simona Halep by his side
He expressed his outrage again regarding the doping case involving Simona Halep, drawing a parallel with the athletes who are exempted by the International Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) due to various medical problems.
“I am amazed by the fact that so far no one has raised the issue of what is happening with legal doping. How is it possible that, as I was informed, the winner of the 100m race at the Paris Olympics (no – the American Noah Lyles) had 8 therapeutic exceptions?!
That is, from the black list, you are allowed to take the pill because you are a little sick. Once, twice, three times…eight times? Not. The spirit of the AMA/WADA was that there are no such things as half-assed. I mean, you’re either pregnant or you’re not pregnant”, he said at the press conference where Simona Halep was also present .
Șiriac is not mistaken how some athletes can take advantage of drugs for years, because they are exempt from the anti-doping regulations
Ion Țiriac reconfirmed the fact that he will deal with this problem, which he does not understand, especially since he knows at least 10 players who benefited from exceptions regarding the consumption of certain supplements.
“So there is no difference, that you are sick or you are not sick. If you are, you go to the hospital and get treated, and when you get out you may or may not be able to play. But you can’t take advantage of decades of medicines…
Simona Halep, if she was smart, said from the beginning: “I’m on the field, talk to the team, not me. What should I take in the first round at the US Open?». But it was positive, so it came from somewhere. It came from the team that gave him something to drink and the team recognized after 3-6 months”, the businessman burst out, according to Digi Sport .
Țiriac recalls that there were no therapeutic exceptions when WADA was established
The Romanian billionaire admits that he is not up to date with the situation of the Italian Jannik Sinner, who tested positive twice in March , without being suspended. But he claims to have spoken to people from the player’s entourage and is convinced that the story told by the ATP leader is true.
“But for me the most important work is with these exceptions. When AMA/WADA was established, these therapeutic exceptions did not exist.
But when you open Pandora’s box and give one a right and another not, it happens what happened to us with Andreea Răducan, with Halep… so here is the big problem. Or to say: «Take, brothers, what you want until you crack. Be the same. Because somewhere there must be an equality». I don’t see this equality at the moment either”, he concluded.
