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Maria Sharapova failed drugs test*
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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Is the right answer.
Leekbrookgull
Well-known member
Nike,American. Gatlin American. Sharapova Russian.
Anyone still in denial over MS' intentions need to listen to this:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lypvk
The programme goes out of it's way to fall at the feet of Maria.
Yet also, and in Virginia Wade's case hilariously accidentally, point out just how guilty of doping Sharapova is.
Then thankfully Pat Cash pipes up and tells it how it is.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lypvk
The programme goes out of it's way to fall at the feet of Maria.
Yet also, and in Virginia Wade's case hilariously accidentally, point out just how guilty of doping Sharapova is.
Then thankfully Pat Cash pipes up and tells it how it is.
Nope.
Gatlin still successful. Sharapova past it.
Purely commercial decision - she gave them the opportunity to get out of a stale long term deal with a non-performing athlete.
Marshy
Well-known member
Yeah but they pulled out now shes been done for drugs.... not because she isnt doing well...
Surely they have left themselves open legally to Sharapova's lawyers what with them continuing to use Gatlin ?
Frampler
New member
There is no legal requirement for consistent treatment in this context. The positive test gives her sponsors contractual freedom to end the arrangements with her, regardless of how they treat other athletes.
http://road.cc/content/news/182018-...cuse-positive-drugs-test-says-bradley-wiggins
The drug – not approved in the UK or US, and which WADA says can enhance sporting performance – is the same one that Sharapova’s compatriot, Katusha rider Edvard Vorganov, tested positive for in January.
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Wiggins underlined however that it is the athlete’s responsibility to check that any substance they are taking does not contravene the rules, although he did say he was sympathetic to the position Sharapova – who has been swiftly dropped by sponsors including Nike – found herself in.
“I do have sympathy for her situation,” he told Sky News. “I feel sorry for her.
“But at the same time, there is no excuse for it because at the end of the day you’re responsible for everything you put in your body.
“You’re also responsible for checking there may be changes [to the Prohibited List] on the first of January.
“British Cycling are really on the ball – Richard Freeman, the doctor – in terms of things that have been changed, saying ‘please don’t use this anymore’.
“There’s no excuse for it in this day and age with the things that have gone on before,” continued Wiggins, who on Sunday won the Madison at the Track World Championships in London with Mark Cavendish.
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“It isn’t an excuse anymore to say ‘I didn’t realise they’d changed the rules’,” he added.
Writing in the Guardian today (link is external) on what he termed a “carefully crafted admission,” journalist Owen Gibson was rather more scathing in his opinion of the excuse given by someone who for more than a decade has been the highest paid woman in sport.
“As many have pointed out,” he commented, “it beggars belief that Sharapova and her huge entourage – all the machinery and accoutrements of modern sport from IMG to Nike, and her own medical and support staff – could have missed the fact that a drug she had been taking for a decade had been made illegal.”
Former WADA president Dick Pond told the BBC (link is external) that Sharapova had been “reckless beyond belief” and that “she should have known” that meldonium is now banned.
While the drug is, or has been, widely used by athletes in Russia, a country whose track and field athletes are at the centre of a separate doping scandal, Pound noted: “She is taking something that is not generally permitted in her country of residence [the US] for medical purposes, so she says, so there must be a doctor following this.
“Anytime there is a change to the list notice is given on 30 September prior to the change,” he went on. “You have October, November, December to get off what you are doing.
“All the tennis players were given notification of it and she has a medical team somewhere. That is reckless beyond description.”
The Latvia-based pharmaceutical firm Grindeks, which developed the drug, said: "Depending on the patient's health condition, treatment course of meldonium preparations may vary from four to six weeks.
"Treatment can be repeated twice or thrice a year. Only physicians can follow and evaluate patient's health condition and state whether the patient should use meldonium for a longer period of time."
The drug – not approved in the UK or US, and which WADA says can enhance sporting performance – is the same one that Sharapova’s compatriot, Katusha rider Edvard Vorganov, tested positive for in January.
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Wiggins underlined however that it is the athlete’s responsibility to check that any substance they are taking does not contravene the rules, although he did say he was sympathetic to the position Sharapova – who has been swiftly dropped by sponsors including Nike – found herself in.
“I do have sympathy for her situation,” he told Sky News. “I feel sorry for her.
“But at the same time, there is no excuse for it because at the end of the day you’re responsible for everything you put in your body.
“You’re also responsible for checking there may be changes [to the Prohibited List] on the first of January.
“British Cycling are really on the ball – Richard Freeman, the doctor – in terms of things that have been changed, saying ‘please don’t use this anymore’.
“There’s no excuse for it in this day and age with the things that have gone on before,” continued Wiggins, who on Sunday won the Madison at the Track World Championships in London with Mark Cavendish.
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“It isn’t an excuse anymore to say ‘I didn’t realise they’d changed the rules’,” he added.
Writing in the Guardian today (link is external) on what he termed a “carefully crafted admission,” journalist Owen Gibson was rather more scathing in his opinion of the excuse given by someone who for more than a decade has been the highest paid woman in sport.
“As many have pointed out,” he commented, “it beggars belief that Sharapova and her huge entourage – all the machinery and accoutrements of modern sport from IMG to Nike, and her own medical and support staff – could have missed the fact that a drug she had been taking for a decade had been made illegal.”
Former WADA president Dick Pond told the BBC (link is external) that Sharapova had been “reckless beyond belief” and that “she should have known” that meldonium is now banned.
While the drug is, or has been, widely used by athletes in Russia, a country whose track and field athletes are at the centre of a separate doping scandal, Pound noted: “She is taking something that is not generally permitted in her country of residence [the US] for medical purposes, so she says, so there must be a doctor following this.
“Anytime there is a change to the list notice is given on 30 September prior to the change,” he went on. “You have October, November, December to get off what you are doing.
“All the tennis players were given notification of it and she has a medical team somewhere. That is reckless beyond description.”
The Latvia-based pharmaceutical firm Grindeks, which developed the drug, said: "Depending on the patient's health condition, treatment course of meldonium preparations may vary from four to six weeks.
"Treatment can be repeated twice or thrice a year. Only physicians can follow and evaluate patient's health condition and state whether the patient should use meldonium for a longer period of time."
Two year ban for Maria Sharapova, subject to appeal.
Slightly harsh for a substance she's been taking for ten years. Wouldn't be surprised if she decided to have a baby during her ban. Plenty of males to volunteer as I think she's single at the moment?
Slightly harsh for a substance she's been taking for ten years. Wouldn't be surprised if she decided to have a baby during her ban. Plenty of males to volunteer as I think she's single at the moment?