Monday, March 7, 2016

Sharapova, shock announcement. “I positive antidoping” – La Gazzetta dello Sport

Leave the tennis? And ‘pregnant? Has new initiatives to be launched? No, nothing like that. Maria Sharapova, dark suit and even darker face, in Los Angeles had convened an “important” press conference to give a shocking news: “The ITF has informed me that I tested positive in a dope test at Meldonium during the Australian Open Melbourne “. The medicine I took, as indeed do it for years, but never had tested positive antidoping. I took it as a medicine and frankly I was not aware of the consequences. “

What is meldonium – Choc great: all in the same day in which also the Olympic champion figure on ice Ekaterina Bobrova, also Russian, was suspended for taking the same drug, used to combat headaches, it has been included from 1 January 2016 in the prohibited list of WADA because it improves metabolism and energy supply of tissues.

know? – the Meldonium is doing casualties, therefore, especially in Russia. But ignorance on doping value of the drug could not be known, the same as the Russian 28-year old admitted: “I received a letter on December 22 by the ITF in which there was the updating of the list of drugs with performance-enhancing effects, with a link to reference, but frankly I have not watched “. Ouch … And indeed Masha added: “The responsibility is mine, not the doctors, although they have prescribed the drug to me. It is a drug for diabetes containing Meldonium. I took it in the last decade of indication of my doctor. However, we are talking about my body and my it was a great lightness. “

BITTER – a very dark face, that of Mary, who found the strength at some punt even defuse the tension. At this time many had made several assumptions about the nature of this conference. Let’s say that if I wanted to announce my retirement I would have done on another carpet “referring to a sad ocher decor and grenade which has unfolded the brief press conference.

the forfeit to indian wells – Now we know why the waiver of Indian Wells Maria Sharapova. Virtually everyone thought now to the withdrawal of a champion on the tennis courts for a lifetime, but at 28 years undermined by too many injuries. the winner of Wimbledon at 17, in 2004, the US Open 2006, Australian Open 2008, she completed the poker Slam at Roland Garros in 2012, repeating in 2014. Masha for all problems’ left forearm had played just three tournaments in the last eight months. Including the Australian Open. Those fatal, closed with the defeat against Serena Williams in the quarterfinals.

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