You gotta be kidding. The guy surely paid lots of green to pass the tests like a "good schoolboy athlete". 7 months pause recommended just after he won RG OPen that was the price the authorities asked from him : be a good fellow pay us something and take a long vacation, spend what you have and take a break from your greed motivated "passion" for tennis.
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Tennis racket company HEAD sticks with Maria Sharapova after 'honest mistake'
HEAD said it was "proud to stand behind Maria," who they believe made an "honest mistake."
Sharapova lost several major sponsorship deals after she admitted failing a drug test at this year's Australian Open. The tennis star and the world's highest-paid female athlete said she'd been taking the drug meldonium since 2006 and didn't realize it was declared a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency at the start of 2016.
The 28-year-old Russian star said she began taking the drug for a magnesium deficiency and irregular EKGs, which can signal problems with the heart's electrical activity. Her family also has a history of diabetes, she added.
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HEAD said the circumstantial evidence is "beyond doubt" that her use of the drug after it was banned was "a manifest error."
"Maria may have made a mistake, but she has earned the benefit of the doubt and we are extending it to her," said Johan Eliasch, the CEO of HEAD.
Sharapova has been under an exclusive contract with HEAD for racquets, strings and grips since 2011, and the company said it looks forward to "many more years of working with Maria."Comment -
This is what Goat called Nadal destroying Sharapova:
“I want to believe that for sure it is a mistake for Maria, that she didn’t want to do it, but it is a negligence so the rules are like this. It’s fair, so now she must pay for it,” Nadal said.
Asked whether he personally read all communications on anti-doping, the Spaniard replied: “To be honest I don’t read it. I have my doctor that I have confidence in. My doctor is the doctor of the Spanish tennis federation for a lot of years. He is the doctor of all the Spanish tennis players so I have full confidence in him. And I never take anything that he doesn’t know.
“I am 100% confident with my team and at the same time, I know all the things that I am taking so it is difficult to imagine that something like this can happen. But it is obvious that mistakes can happen – everyone can make mistakes.”
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Nobody even believes her
She always was a snake too
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2 year ban, pending the obvious appeal.Comment -
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A hacktivist group claims it has uncovered files that show American tennis players the Williams sisters were allowed by WADA to take banned substances, while US Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles recorded a positive drug test.
The allegations were published on the website of the hacktivist group Fancy Bear, which described the revelations as being “just the tip of the iceberg.”
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World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) has released a statement confirming the cyber attack. It noted that the cyber intrusion was conducted by a Russian hacker team and that it is taking the attack “very seriously.”
“The group accessed athlete data, including confidential medical data - such as Therapeutic Use Exemptions delivered by International Sports Federations (IFs) and National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs) - related to the Rio Games.”
According to the body, the information was obtained “through spear phishing of email accounts.”
An internal investigation has been launched, WADA said in the statement.
The documents the group says it hacked from WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database contain information that Serena Williams, one of the world’s greatest ever tennis players, was taking a number of banned substances.
Williams was allowed to take oxycodone, hydromorphone, prednisone and methylprednisolone in 2010, 2014 and 2015, despite the substances being placed on WADA’s list of banned substances.
However, the documents released also showed that Williams had been given special permission to take some of the drugs. The authorization was given by Dr. Stuart Miller from the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
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3:43 PM - 12 Sep 2016
Serena’s older sister Venus was found to have taken prednisone, prednisolone, triamcinolone and formoterol, which are also on WADA’s banned list. However, she was given special dispensation to take the substances as long as she adhered to various conditions regarding the use of the drugs.
Both Serena and Venus Williams were allowed to take the prohibited drugs, the ITF says.
"The Williams sisters had permission for the therapeutic use of banned drugs," the ITF is quoted as saying by TASS.
Meanwhile, American gymnast Simone Biles tested positive for methylphenidate after giving a urine sample. However, like the Williams sisters, she was given special dispensation to take the drug.
RT has contacted the International Federation of Gymnastics for comment, with its representative saying the body followed the current rules and that there is “no problem.”
“She [Biles] has a therapeutic use exemption, there is nothing we have to mention about that, everything is absolutely clear and according to the rules.”
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2:21 PM - 12 Sep 2016
The leaked documents do not contain any diagnoses for the affected athletes, with the respective fields in the papers marked as“confidential.”
GOAT check in you fukkin clueless twit
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Rocket, is Seaweed sleeping with the fishes?????????????Comment -
those are some Very heavy duty steroids. Serena is a scam. F her.Comment
