{"id":7577,"date":"2016-05-27T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2016-05-27T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T12:25:14","slug":"what-drug-ban-maria-sharapova-picked-for-russias-rio-2016-olympics-tennis-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=7577","title":{"rendered":"What Drug Ban: Maria Sharapova Picked For Russia’s Rio 2016 Olympics Tennis Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drug ban on Russian Tennis star Maria Sharapova might be having nothing on her at the moment as she’s been suprisingly selected by the Russian tennis Federation to join its team to partake in the Rio Olympics this summer. The Tennis star who was banned by the WTA for taking a banned performance enhancing substance during January’s 2016 Australian Open, will according to Russian Federation be part of the team for the forthcoming Rio Olympics. \u201cWe will include Sharapova in the team, which we need to announce by\u00a06 June,\u201d said Shamil Tarpishchev, \u00adpresident of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTF). \"image\"<\/a> \u201cWhether she competes or not should be decided by the end of the first week of Roland Garros.\u201d The 28 year old former Wmbledown champion earlier this year revealed she had been taking a banned substance but didn’t know it was banned because she didnt open an email sent to her by the WTA. “I received a letter from the ITF that I failed a drugs test at the Australian Open,” said Sharapova. “I take full responsibility for it. \"image\"<\/a> “For the past 10 years I have been given a medicine called mildronate by my family doctor and a few days ago after I received the ITF letter I found out that it also has another name of meldonium which I did not know. “It is very important for you to understand that for 10 years this medicine was not on WADA’s banned list and I had legally been taking the medicine for the past 10 years. “But on\u00a0January 1\u00a0the rules had changed and meldonium became a prohibited substance which I had not known.” “I take great responsibility and professionalism in my job every day. I made a huge mistake. I’ve let my fans down, I’ve let this sport down,”\u00a0 “I know that with this I face consequences and I don’t want to end my career this way and I hope that I will be given another chance to play this game again. Sharapova was suspended from competitions as of\u00a0March 12\u00a0and the International Tennis Federation has not considered her case yet. Source: Russia’s official news Agency, TASS.<\/p>\n

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