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.
in recent days it has emerged that several athletes tested positive for the substance and yesterday was a big shock notified when tennis star Maria Sharapova admitted doping at a press conference in Los Angeles.
health Problems
the Russian told me that she had taken the substance in ten years for “health problems”.
– I take full responsibility after a big 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 did not know that it has become forbidden. 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.
The 28-year-old tested positive on 26th January during the Australian Open, which is the only tournament as the seventh ranked player played in years.
– I can not end my career like this and hope for a second chance, says Sjarapova.
on Sunday 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.
The former Swedish elite player Sofia Arvidsson, 32, was one of those who were surprised by the news.
– This came like a small bomb. Even if someone tells you what you should take it you who put it in his mouth. This kind of thing is a total disaster for all careers. Can not say anything about it. One can feel a little bit with her if it was a mistake, says the Swede.
Uncertain with penalty
Sjarapova is permanently switched off by the International Tennis Federation, ITF, while the investigation is ongoing. WADA spokesman Ben Nichols says that it will not give any more comments before the ITF made a decision. Thereafter, WADA, depending on the decision, choose to appeal to the Arbitration for Sport, CAS. The punishment can be anything from a four-year-long shutdown at minimal punishment without shutdown if one believes that it was an “honest mistake”.
The Russian Federation president Shamil Tarpshchev have their opinion clear – and describes it as nonsense.
– I think she will play the Olympics. But we’ll see how it unfolds, he said to the Russian news agency Tass.
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