Maria Sharapova has been caught doping.
Tennis star says that it is about meldonium – she will have taken over ten years.
According to 28-year-old she did not know that the substance recently doping classified.
– I got an email from WADA december 22 about the changes on the list but I did not click on that link, said the former world number one.
it was just a week ago it was revealed that the Swedish athletics star Abeba Aregawi caught in a doping test.
it was about substance meldonium, who became doping classed as late as the end of the year after having been on WADA watchlist throughout last year. READ ALSO Aregawi stuck in doping test
“I take full responsibility”
In recent days it has emerged that several athletes tested positive, now, the next shock news. It’s all about tennis star Maria Sharapova, who says that she has taken the substance in ten years’ time for ‘health’. It was at a news conference that Russian admitted doping.
– I take full responsibility for a huge mistake and apologize. I have let down my fans and I have betrayed my sport that I love so deeply, says Sjarapova.
But one eye on the meldonium forbidden to have, she would have had, she says herself.
– I got sick very often and suffered a lack of magnesium. We have diabetes in the family, and indications that I had it. It (meldonium) was one of the drugs, among many, I got says Sjarapova.
– I’ve been taking this medicine legally in the last ten years, but January 1 was forbidden which I did not know. I got an email from WADA December 22 about the changes on the list but I did not click on that link, says Sjarapova at the press conference. READ ALSO Doping preparation is done only in Latvia
“Do not end up like this”
The 28-year-old tested positive on January 26th, during the Australian Open, which is the only tournament she has played this year.
Sjarapova became one of the world rankings in 2005 and has won both the Wimbledon, US Open, Australian Open and French Open. She is currently ranked seventh in the world.
– I can not end my career like this and hope for a second chance, says Sjarapova at the press conference.
yesterday announced tennis star that she would hold a press conference to “tell something big.” Many thought that it was about the injured persecuted player would end his career. READ ALSO How is it possible to be so clumsy?
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