Sharapova facing one-year ban for failing to pass drug test

[-Kev-]

There must be a lot of athletes with that same health problem because a couple of them have been busted for that drug this year.

All by Russians...Russia, where the drug is not banned. It just got banned in the US effective Jan 1st 2016.

[about.thousands]

All by Russians...Russia, where the drug is not banned. It just got banned in the US effective Jan 1st 2016.

It's never been legal in the US. It was banned by WADA in 2016 but been on the watchlist for a couple of years. It was put on the watch list because so many athletes were using it.

[Weltschmerz]

She hardly needs tennis anymore, anyway.

[HanzGruber]

She hardly needs tennis anymore, anyway.

Couldn't even beat the goat on peds

[Nubia]

Meh, figures.

She could cheat as much as she wants to, she'll never be on Serena's level.

[led]

Now, Nike and Tag Heuer cut ties with her. I wish I could console her and offers her my shoulders. Poor lil thing.

[The Big Dunn]

Porsches is suspending relationship with her as well. without the PEDS she'd be anna kornikova 2.

http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id...sharapova-case

[megas30]

Well she's Russian and it is allowed in Russia. It's just not allowed by FDA/WADA. Also it says that it was added to WADA's list in Jan 2016, so it was recent, and could have been overlooked by a veteran. So her explanation makes sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium

Sometimes it takes a while to catch some drugs and put them on the banned list. She's a drug cheat plain and simple and nothing around it. She should lose all her sponsorships and endorsements. The same thing done to other athletes.

[Snoop Frog]

WADA is softening its stance on Meldonium and looks like it's going to pardon athletes. There isn't enough scientific study on the drug to understand it fully.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...m-vitaly-mutko

[BigNuts]

Meh, figures.

She could cheat as much as she wants to, she'll never be on Serena's level.

Exactly.

Isn't her record vs serena something like 20 losses and only 2 wins?