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Maria Sharapova Suspended For 2 Years For Doping
LONDON (CBSNewYork/AP) — Maria Sharapova was suspended for two years Wednesday for testing positive for meldonium at the Australian Open.
The five-time Grand Slam champion was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Federation in early March, when she announced at a news conference in Los Angeles that she failed a doping test in January.
Sharapova said then she was not aware that the World Anti-Doping Agency had barred athletes from using meldonium, also known as mildronate, as of Jan. 1.
Her lawyer, John Haggerty, said Sharapova took the substance after that date.
Sharapova vowed Wednesday to appeal the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“While the tribunal concluded correctly that I did not intentionally violate the anti-doping rules, I cannot accept an unfairly harsh two-year suspension,” she wrote on Facebook …. http://newyork.cbslocal.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/06/maria-sharapova-suspended-for-2-years.html
