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Maria Sharapova admits she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open
Maria Sharapova has admitted that she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open earlier this year.
The former Wimbledon champion, 28, revealed that she has been taking medicine including a substance called meldonium during the last 10 years,
but that the substance was placed on WADA’s banned list from January 1 this year.
That information was made readily available to competitors via a letter.
declaring the changes to the banned substances list for 2016 which Sharapova admits receiving on December 22, but not reading.
I take great responsibility and professionalism in my job every day.
I made a huge mistake. I’ve let my fans down, I’ve let this sport down,
said the Russian on Monday evening.
I know that with this I face consequences.
and I don’t want to end my career this way and I hope that I will be given another chance to play this game again.
I received a letter from the ITF that I failed a drugs test at the Australian Open,
said Sharapova. “I take full responsibility for it.
For the past 10 years I have been given a medicine called mildronate by my family doctor and a few days ago after I received the ITF letter I found out that it also has another name of meldonium which I did not know.
It is very important for you to understand that for 10 years this medicine was not on WADA’s banned list.
and I had legally been taking the medicine for the past 10 years.
But on January 1 the rules had changed and meldonium became a prohibited substance which I had not known.
Sharapova has stated that she will co-operate with the International Tennis Federation’s investigation.
A statement concerning Sharapova’s failed drugs test, courtesy of WTA chairman and CEO Steve Simon, declared:
I am very saddened to hear this news about Maria. Maria is a leader and I have always know her to be a woman of great integrity.
Nevertheless, as Maria acknowledged, it is every player’s responsibility to know.
what they put in their body and to know if it is permissable.
This matter is now in the hands of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program and its standard procedures.
Martina Hingis was banned for two years in 2008 after testing positive for cocaine and then retired before later making a comeback. Marin Cilic was given a nine-month ban for testing positive to banned substance nikethamide in April 2013 but the suspension was cut to four months on appeal.
Sharapova, who sprang to worldwide fame by winning Wimbledon aged 17, has been the highest paid female athlete on the planet for the last 11 years.
But she has increasingly struggled with injury and has played only three WTA events since Wimbledon last year and last weekend she pulled out of this week’s BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells because of a left forearm injury.
The drug which caused Sharapova’s failed test, meldonium, is the same drug which recently saw Sweden’s world 1500m champion Abeba Aregawi provisionally suspended following a positive out-of-competition test administered by the IAAF less than two weeks ago.
The WTA will support the decisions reached through this process.
I only received the letter a few days ago and I will be working with the ITF.
Maria Sharapova admits she failed a drugs test at the Australian Open
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