Maria Sharapova did not lose a contract with Nike because of their mistakes, which can still be corrected – “What’s going on?”

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Maria Sharapova will not lose one of its largest contracts. So Nike leadership in the person of Edward Trevor noted that although the company has suspended cooperation with it to clarify the scandal to detect it in the doping trial of a banned substance, but completely interrupt the contract does not intend to. Trevor Edward noticed that each athlete as an ordinary man has a right to make mistakes.

Recall that in early March, the largest manufacturer of shoes and clothes Nike sports plan announced the suspension of cooperation with the 28-year-old Russian tennis star because of its positive results of doping tests. Her test showed traces of the drug meldonium prohibited from January 1 this year.

According to Edwards, quoted by Reuters, «such stories are always sad and disappointing, but at the same time, athletes are people just like us, they tend to make mistakes.” Also the head of Nike noted that mistakes make us wiser and learn to live on, not allowing them. And because many athletes inspire ordinary people is to give them a chance to improve.