Sharapova fails drug test

[Hoergren]

CAS to announce verdict in @MariaSharapova case 3:00pm European Central Time tomorrow.

 

[tossip]

hopefully she gets an extra year...

 

[Remilekun Jibade]

Ban her for life. No sympathy.

 

[kskate2]

The CAS has reduced her ban from 24 months to 15 months. That means she will be back right in the heart of clay court season in April.

 

[the AntiPusher]

The CAS has reduced her ban from 24 months to 15 months. That means she will be back right in the heart of clay court season in April.

I told ya so.. I am not surprised..thanks KS

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Here is BBC news on the reduction of ban from 24 to 15 months. This is unsatisfactory from what I see. The ban should have been till end of 2017 or at least for 18 months. Maria's next slam attempt will be at RG 17 under this ruling.

This is effectively only a one year ban, as the last three months fell on the dry season of WTA starting in February. :cover

 

[Hoergren]

Here is BBC news on the reduction of ban from 24 to 15 months. This is unsatisfactory from what I see. The ban should have been till end of 2017 or at least for 18 months. Maria's next slam attempt will be at RG 17 under this ruling.

This is effectively only a one year ban, as the last three months fell on the dry season of WTA starting in February. :cover

Will she get a wildcard or does she have to play qualification? It's a shame that CAS and other organisations reduce a ban. What if it had been another player? - there would have been no reduce. And how many qualification tournaments does she have to take part in before she's inside the rankings - zero me thinks and that will be another fault. Have nothing against Maria but she's been caught and then she'll be punished.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Here is BBC news on the reduction of ban from 24 to 15 months. This is unsatisfactory from what I see. The ban should have been till end of 2017 or at least for 18 months. Maria's next slam attempt will be at RG 17 under this ruling.

This is effectively only a one year ban, as the last three months fell on the dry season of WTA starting in February. :cover

Will she get a wildcard or does she have to play qualification? It's a shame that CAS and other organisations reduce a ban. What if it had been another player? - there would have been no reduce. And how many qualification tournaments does she have to take part in before she's inside the rankings - zero me thinks and that will be another fault. Have nothing against Maria but she's been caught and then she'll be punished.

You are right, she is a Diva and so she won't play any qualifying tourneys. All the tourneys will be applying to Meldopova and request her to kindly accept their wild-card offerings. Perhaps, it is time to introduce a rule barring tourneys from offering wild cards to players coming out of a ban for bad behavior.

As per the rules, she can get a minimum of one year and a maximum of two years when she went for the appeal. At least, they should have given her 1.5 years. This ruling is disappointing.

 

[10isfan]

The cheater returns April 26. Six months for the tennis world to go get good quality earplugs. This is a sad day for clean sport. I predict fans at FO will boo her??

CEO of Head is calling her an upright, moral role model. I hope sales of the company take a huge dive for his delusional comments.

 

[tossip]

what a TRAVESTY and Billie Jean King had the audacity to invite her to her event before she has served out her ban...and Roddick of all people is attending this event...and all russian players are applauding her for the comeback..

 

[the AntiPusher]

what a TRAVESTY and Billie Jean King had the audacity to invite her to her event before she has served out her ban...and Roddick of all people is attending this event...and all russian players are applauding her for the comeback..

Yeah, she is gonna comeback and beat the majority of these ladies(excluding Serena) as if they were the whistle blowers to her illegal drug use.

I can see the her headlines now, "Unlike Space where no one can hear you scream ,when Maria plays everyone will hear her Scream!"

 

[tossip]

what a TRAVESTY and Billie Jean King had the audacity to invite her to her event before she has served out her ban...and Roddick of all people is attending this event...and all russian players are applauding her for the comeback..

Yeah, she is gonna comeback and beat the majority of these ladies(excluding Serena) as if they were the whistle blowers to her illegal drug use.

I can see the her headlines now, "Unlike Space where no one can hear you scream ,when Maria plays everyone will hear her Scream!"

Evert is already happy that she is coming back:cover...those russian girls are her minions

and she doesnt care about them....why cant she relocate to Russia dont trust her she could be a double agent.

 

[britbox]

Maria Sharapova Suspension Shortened to 15 Months



Sharapova appeared on Charlie Rose shortly after the decision.

 

[Mastoor]

With Sharapova we have Seinfeld's postulate "pretty blond can get away with anything, even murder" changed.

 

[Hoergren]

Sam Stosur

Former U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur says the CAS ruling sets a bad precedent. (AP)

At the WTA event in Hong Kong, Samantha Stosur said she was surprised by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision on Maria Sharapova, adding that Sharapova should not have been allowed to "get away" with saying she did not know the product had recently become banned.

Sharapova tested positive for meldonium, saying she had taken it for many years for medical reasons. It was prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the beginning of the 2016 season.

"I can’t believe it, actually,” Stosur said. “I don’t even know what to say ... I don’t know how you can get away with that excuse and have that overturned ... I think it’s remarkable that you can use that excuse and get away with it ... It really sets a bad precedence for athletes moving forward, where you can almost put your hands up and say it was not my fault."

Sharapova initially received a two-year ban from an independent International Tennis Federation (ITF) tribunal. The CAS reduced it to a 15-month suspension, and noted, among other things, that she had not received significant warning from the ITF or WADA about the change.

Stosur indicated that she and other WTA players are not likely to get behind Sharapova.

"I’ve spoken to a few people and we all seem to have the same idea," she said "...We had the same idea beforehand, and now we have the decision. So I wouldn’t imagine there’s a whole lot of support from the playing group."

 

[britbox]

 

[kskate2]

It'll be very interesting to see how the locker room and the fans treat her when she comes back.

 

[HawkEye]

the sisters are not the only ones using TUEs ...lots of players do it because its the proper way to use medicine in sports.Serena and Venus used the dosage that was approved by WADA and ITF...pova was self medicating.Venus only used this out of competition when she was struggling with Sjogren really bad and Serena has a bad knee that everyone knows bothers her a lot...anti inflammatories thats it..

I realize this but you're always going on and on about the Williams sisters innocence while slagging Sharapova. Now just so you know, I can't stand Sharapova, but the Williams sisters really aren't a whole lot better and it's time you saw this for what it is. Sharapova was taking the drug legally for 10 years and it's already been documented that what Serena was taking burns fat, builds muscle and adds power and Venus has an inhaler on the court ffs. Hardly out of competition and dodgy as hell as is ANY player, for the record, who has an inhaler 'cos most of us aren't buying that lame excuse when we see a player take a few puffs and turn into a super hero on stage annihilating their opponent 6-0 or 6-1, eg Kvitova.

Well, Kvitova was taking a substance because of her asthma, which is now legal for everyone, even without any permission so it probably doesn't have such effect you are suggesting.

I think you are becomming a little bit insane nowadays.:nono

 

[Front242]

Not in the slightest. Do some research on Xenon and Argon gas and then come back to me about what could be in those "asthma" inhalers. This is a very long article but absolutely enlightening and everyone here should read it as it will make you think twice next time you see a player with an inhaler and claiming "asthma" or Sjogrens's syndrome or any of that bs. Here's the most eye opening part about how easy it is to get an inhaler. And once you have an inhaler you can put anything you want in it...Xenon and Argon gas are 100% undetectable at present and yet while banned, there is no test for them because they can't be detected. The benefits...a few puffs and you get a massive oxygen/energy surge. Sound familiar? It should when you see players getting hammered in sets, taking a few puffs and hammering their opponents for the rest of the match. And you're also wrong about standard asthma medication not being performance enhancing.

"Elite Runner Had Qualms When Alberto Salazar Told Her to Use Asthma Drug for Performance

In 2005, I started having worse symptoms of exercise-induced asthma. I had gone to an allergy and asthma doctor on my own, and I got tested after the season was over in 2004 and didn't fail the asthma test. The environmental triggers [like pollen] weren't there. [The doctor] was like, sorry, you don't have asthma, you can't get a prescription.

Alberto set up an appointment in Portland, during allergy season, with a doctor who had seen many other runners. He had a specific protocol ... you would go to the local track and run around the track, work yourself up to having an asthma attack and then run down the street, up 12 flights of stairs to the office and they would be waiting to test you. So that's what I did and I failed the test, and the doctor prescribed Advair for during the racing season when pollen counts were the highest, and albuterol, which is a rescue inhaler."

https://www.propublica.org/article/elite-runner-had-qualms-alberto-salazar-asthma-drug-performance

 

[the AntiPusher]

what a TRAVESTY and Billie Jean King had the audacity to invite her to her event before she has served out her ban...and Roddick of all people is attending this event...and all russian players are applauding her for the comeback..

She is back...playing World team tennis tonight :nono