FairwayDodger
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It's a 4 year ban if they rule she took it deliberately to cheat, 2 year ban if accidental.
It's a 4 year ban if they rule she took it deliberately to cheat, 2 year ban if accidental.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
she is struggling badly with injuries, she has only played 4 tournaments since Wimbledon. I reckon there is a fair chance she will just pack in.
So 30 if she gets an accidental ban and can't see why they'd throw the book at her with the evident medical history. Would she really be competitive with no games in that time, and more crucially would she really want to keep doing it? Not sure she'll be short of offers after she stops, whether thats as a result of this or not
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Snelly
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Very dodgy and I would think the tip of the iceberg in tennis.
Every cloud though, at least it is one less screaming banshee at Wimbledon.
Every cloud though, at least it is one less screaming banshee at Wimbledon.
ger147
Tour Winner
There is precedent for much shorter bans...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/te...d-for-six-months-after-drug-test-failure.html
Beezerk
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This.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
I believe her because she's white and pretty.......
Russian athlete fails drug test! Why do I not find this surprising? Sharapova should be banned for her grunting if nothing else! :mmm:
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Robobum
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Don't like this. They (or at least the team around them) are all so switched on to what they can and cannot do.
Detection in urine or blood would be no more than a week I'd guess, without checking. So she carried on taking after it was banned for sure.
Drug and alcohol detection is what we do as a business and we have had some every interesting conversations recently with an athletics body for testing outside of wada.
Detection in urine or blood would be no more than a week I'd guess, without checking. So she carried on taking after it was banned for sure.
Drug and alcohol detection is what we do as a business and we have had some every interesting conversations recently with an athletics body for testing outside of wada.
Ethan
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It would be astonishingly unusual and almost incredible for a fit healthy 28 year old to take this because of a family history of diabetes or heart disease. That is patently not why she was taking it. The drug is not widely used in the US or western Europe for any medical indication, but is widely used in eastern Europe as a performance enhancer for athletes. She has, presumably, been taking it for the same reason for years, and slipped up after it was banned.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
what ever she is taking it doesn't work, as she gets gubbed by Serena every time they play.
pokerjoke
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Just saw the press conference and she says she "made a massive mistake" however how could it be a massive mistake if she was "taking it for medical reasons".
All sounds a bit dubious to me and that's unfortunate.
Wether she gets a ban or retires off the back of it or she carries on playing she will be tarnished and I see sponsers have already dropped some contracts.
All sounds a bit dubious to me and that's unfortunate.
Wether she gets a ban or retires off the back of it or she carries on playing she will be tarnished and I see sponsers have already dropped some contracts.
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Deleted member 15344
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Haven't there been a good number of young athletes in the past die from heart issues - so is it not very much possible that she is being genuine
Fyldewhite
Tour Winner
The mistake was failing to realise it had been added to the banned list.
My gut feeling is that it is a genuine mistake and appears to be doing exactly the right thing in coming out and saying so and more importantly not really trying to mitigate the situation but recognising the seriousness and accepting any consequences. Not a great situation but I don't think history will judge her too harshly once the inevitable hullabaloo has blown over.
pokerjoke
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That's true but why would you say "I made a massive mistake " when it sounds like a mis-understanding not a massive mistake.
Ethan
Money List Winner
That would be HOCM, which is entirely different.
Meldonium is a performance enhancing drug pretending to be a real medicine. It was developed in Latvia, and is used almost exclusively in Russia. It isn't available in the US or UK. If she has a genuine medical issue, there are many much much better medicines she would take, but none of them are performance enhancing.
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
This is what I don't get though.
It sounds like a genuine mistake because it was not banned originally.
So why not come out and say it was genuine and not say she made a massive mistake.
She seems to be taking all the blame and not blaming any of her team,surely that's there job and just let her concentrate on the tennis.
To me its just not adding up[yet].
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Deleted member 15344
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I believe exactly this as well and can see a possible short ban or warning
Unfortunately for her the country of her birth is having lots of issues and she will be lumped in with that
Kellfire
Blackballed
Because when a sportsperson blames the team around them, they get pelters for not taking responsibility for their own actions.
She took the substance, ultimately her mistake and fair play for her admitting that much.
ColchesterFC
Journeyman Pro
Just caught the end of a story on the news and it looks like Nike have withdrawn their sponsorship of Sharapova over this. Can't help but think there must be more to the story as Nike still sponsor Gatlin who has twice been banned for taking performance enhancing drugs. Can't see why they'd keep supporting a known drug cheat but drop Sharapova so quickly.
