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Maria Sharapova Fails Drug Test

Riviera
Riviera Posts: 8,167
edited March 2016 in Other Football and Sports
At the Australian Open. Not contesting the result, apologising now to the worlds media.
Tennis getting some bad press at the moment.
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  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    edited March 2016
    Been taking a drug from her doctor for 10 years against diabetes and other sicknesses, which is a family illness, the drug is now banned from January 1st 2016, under another name, she did not read an information form she was sent, so pleading guilty
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Ouch. So that was the major announcement.

    Rumours that she was going to retire following a succession of injuries but that's a terrible look... especially for a Russian athlete.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    if what ross1 says is true then blameless imo, code violation every time for her grunting tho
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Why is she saying she's let the game down then?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,991
    edited March 2016
    If it's as she says & it probably is. I feel sorry for her. Surely one of her "advisors" should have been monitoring these sort of things ?

    http://bytheminsport.com/events/951

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    Still would the junkie.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    We're getting 5 or 6 posts in at least nowadays. Baby steps
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,991
    Riviera said:

    Why is she saying she's let the game down then?

    Bad image/publicity presumably.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    What a complete non-story! It was broken on BBC 5Live as if she'd taken every drug under the sun but they have just now played the statement and it is as someone mentioned earlier. Unless she's lying of course......
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Is there drug testing in tennis now?
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,991
    IA said:

    Is there drug testing in tennis now?

    I'll take a random guess and say yes.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Tennis players are allowed a whole load more substances than many other stars in other sports due to them having to perform for up to four or five hours in extreme temperatures.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,991
    Riviera said:

    Tennis players are allowed a whole load more substances than many other stars in other sports due to them having to perform for up to four or five hours in extreme temperatures.

    Mainly bananas.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Callumcafc said:

    Ouch. So that was the major announcement.

    Rumours that she was going to retire following a succession of injuries but that's a terrible look... especially for a Russian athlete.

    She's lived in America for 20 odd years, so she's got no connection with the Russian authorities.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Mind you, it's hardly helped her has it? She melts as soon as she sees Serena.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,048
    Riviera said:

    Mind you, it's hardly helped her has it? She melts as soon as she sees Serena.

    I know a bloke at work who does that...we all think he has to be on drugs!!!
  • c4fcdenmark
    c4fcdenmark Posts: 2,041
    I am delighted that her awful scream will no longer be heard on radio or TV. HURRAY,
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    ross1 said:

    Been taking a drug from her doctor for 10 years against diabetes and other sicknesses, which is a family illness, the drug is now banned from January 1st 2016, under another name, she did not read an information form she was sent, so pleading guilty

    Not sure why you'd take Angina medication for diabetes.

    However, nice cover for the increased blood flow and cardio benefits it gifts her.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    c4fcdenmark said:

    I am delighted that her awful scream will no longer be heard on radio or TV. HURRAY,

    Well if she screams like that during a match, imagine what she's like in bed!!

    Sorry @Leuth
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Chrissy\\\'s Army!! said:

    c4fcdenmark said:

    I am delighted that her awful scream will no longer be heard on radio or TV. HURRAY,

    Well if she screams like that during a match, imagine what she's like in bed!!

    Sorry @Leuth
    Are you suggesting she snores loudly?
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  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,626
    she must have known that she was breaking the rules, after all I guess she has a team of advisors and managers and you can't tell me one of them doesn't keep an eye on new banned substances, give her a 5 year ban, but I guess she'll get the minimum.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,304
    She didnt even win the competition though... She wants to go back to the manufacturer as she's been sold some crap
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234


    Well if she screams like that during a match, imagine what she's like in bed!!


    Not all that great to be honest but I don't normally talk about my exs on public fora.


  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Seriously though, I don't have an awful lot of sympathy. This smacks of a staged coming clean before the imminent sh1t hits the fan. These megastars are surrounded by a coterie of experts. They barely have to wipe their own arses. I just don't buy the "oops I'm so stupid" routine. I really don't. Tennis is beginning to feel like athletics.

    And thank f... We won't hear that grunting for a while.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    Leuth said:

    We're getting 5 or 6 posts in at least nowadays. Baby steps

    Genuine Lol. Very dry.
  • Addickforlife
    Addickforlife Posts: 2,101
    Not buying that for one minute.

    Also think she's just opened a can of worms and tennis will now become the latest sport to be embroiled in doping scandal.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Doctor on this morning earlier, said that he can't understand why a sporrts person would use that particular drug for anything other than cheating... and even he admitted the benefit would be so marginal it'd be pointless to risk it all.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Addickforlife said:

    Not buying that for one minute.

    Also think she's just opened a can of worms and tennis will now become the latest sport to be embroiled in doping scandal.

    I've got my suspicions about Nadal's conveniently timed knee injuries and incredible recoveries, for one.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    North Lower Neil said:

    Addickforlife said:

    Not buying that for one minute.

    Also think she's just opened a can of worms and tennis will now become the latest sport to be embroiled in doping scandal.

    I've got my suspicions about Nadal's conveniently timed knee injuries and incredible recoveries, for one.
    i think a LOT of people feel the same mate
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    I feel that as a penance, she should be made to spend a night with me.

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