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Post by Original Quill Wed Jun 08, 2016 5:42 pm

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Yahoo Sports wrote:By Martyn Herman

LONDON (Reuters) - The career of Russian former world number one Maria Sharapova was in tatters on Wednesday after she was given a two-year ban by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) following her positive test for the banned drug meldonium at this year's Australian Open.

In a statement the ITF said the 29-year-old five-times grand slam champion's ban would be backdated to Jan. 26 this year, meaning her results and prize money from the Australian Open, where she reached the quarter-finals, would be canceled out.

Sharapova said she would appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), describing the punishment as "unfairly harsh".

She said an independent tribunal in London on May 18-19 had found that she had not intentionally violated anti-doping rules.

In a statement on its website the ITF said the ban had been backdated due to Sharapova's 'prompt admission' of her violation.

"An Independent Tribunal appointed under Article 8.1 of the 2016 Tennis Anti-Doping Program has found that Maria Sharapova committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Program and as a consequence has disqualified the affected results and imposed a period of ineligibility of two years, commencing on 26 January 2016," the statement said.

"Ms. Sharapova, a 29-year-old player from Russia, provided a urine sample on 26 January 2016, after her quarter-final match at the 2016 Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia.

"That sample was sent to the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada, for analysis, and was found to contain meldonium, which is a metabolic modulator that is included under section S4 (Hormone and Metabolic Modulators) of the 2016 WADA Prohibited List, and therefore is also prohibited under the Program."

Meldonium was added to WADA's list of banned substances at the start of the year after evidence that it boosted blood flow and enhanced athletic performance.

Sharapova, the world's highest-paid female athlete, stunned the sporting world in March when she announced that she had tested positive for meldonium, a drug she said she had been taking for a decade to treat diabetes and low magnesium.

At the time Sharapova, the highest-profile tennis player to fail an anti-doping test, said she had made "a huge mistake" blaming her failure to read an email sent by the ITF that meldonium had been added to the banned list.

Sharapova, who could have been given a four-year ban, reacted to the punishment on her Facebook page.

"The ITF spent tremendous amounts of time and resources trying to prove I intentionally violated the anti-doping rules and the tribunal concluded I did not," she said.

"You need to know that the ITF asked the tribunal to suspend me for four years -- the required suspension for an intentional violation -- and the tribunal rejected the ITF's position.

"While the tribunal concluded correctly that I did not intentionally violate the anti-doping rules, I cannot accept an unfairly harsh two-year suspension."

Sharapova's career now hangs in the balance.

Unless her ban is reduced she will not be eligible to play until after the 2018 Australian Open when she would be 30.

The ban will also impact on her earning potential.

Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer cut its ties with Sharapova after the news of her doping violation while other sponsors such as Nike and Porsche distanced themselves from her.

Sharapova has 35 WTA singles titles and has won all four of the sport's grand slam titles.

Her career earnings amount to $36 million while her off-court earnings, according to Forbes, are around $200 million.

(Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Clare Fallon)

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Post by Original Quill Thu Jun 09, 2016 5:36 pm

If you ask me, I think the international sports bodies are down on Russian players of any sort. They've been caught cheating so many times, so often.

But, meldonium is quite common in Sharapova's corner of the world, and she was taking it for legitimate purposes.

This girl is 29-years old. She'll be 31-31 years old when she comes off suspension. Effectively, they want to destroy her career.

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Original Quill wrote:If you ask me, I think the international sports bodies are down on Russian players of any sort.  They've been caught cheating so many times, so often.  

But, meldonium is quite common in Sharapova's corner of the world, and she was taking it for legitimate purposes.

This girl is 29-years old.  She'll be 31-31 years old when she comes off suspension.  Effectively, they want to destroy her career.

Ya, I've been torn about her situation since this first came out. And over on the other political community I've taken a serious arse whooping from the American Red-Necks for standing up in support of her having had been on this specific drug for her heart condition ...I think since she was 10 years old. 

But so many of our prescription meds weren't always being used to 'CHEAT' or being modified by those sports enhancement druggies that use 'ANY MEANS POSSIBLE' to get their warm body an advantage and a win.

But the 'rules are the rules' and as we've all read the many places that the teams & nations that have been cheating ...it's just defiling the pro-sports world and after the Lance Armstrong circus - I'm very skeptic about most winners now days!

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