Welcome back to Sports Craze. Darren Cahill, the Australian coach who steered Simona Halep to grand slam glory, says there is no way his former charge knowingly took banned drugs. As tennis luminaries have come out in force to throw their weight behind the popular Halep’s fight to clear her name, Cahill has led an impassioned defense, insisting her “integrity is faultless” and concluding, “I stand with Simo”.
The 31-year-old tested positive for the banned substance Roxadustat at the US Open, in what is the most high profile doping case in women’s tennis since Maria Sharapova’s failed test for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.
