Tennis star Maria Sharapova faces a lengthy ban from the sport as she admitted of taking performance enhancement drug called meldonium.
The five time grand slam winner tested positive on Jan 26,the day she lost to Serena Williams in the quarter finals. The implication of this revelation means that she will be suspended provisional even though she is nursing a forearm injury.
The highest paid female athlete in the world is already going through the International Tennis Federation processes in discussing the possibility of a limited sanction based on the facts of what she has put so far as her evidence.
Maria failed to check a list of a banned substance sent by the World anti- doping Agency in conjunction with the International Tennis Federation at the end of every year.
Under the rules of tennis anti doping program, Sharapova positive test would normally have been announced by the ITF, but the body has not finished it adjudication process.
Sharapova Facing A Lifetime Ban From Tennis
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