Sharapova denied receiving five letters banning meldonium – RBC

Sharapova denied receiving five letters banning meldonium

In a message to his fans of Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova called untrue messages that received five predprezhdeny about the upcoming ban mildronata (trade name meldonium drug). On this she wrote on his page on Facebook.

On Monday, 7 March, Sharapova at an emergency press conference held in Los Angeles, acknowledged having used doping. According to her, she received a letter from the ITF, which reported that in her doping sample meldonium traces of the drug were found. This product was included in the list of banned from January 1, 2016. According to tennis, she takes on the responsibility for what happened.

ITF confirmed that Sharapova has been convicted of doping and will be removed from the pre-competition from 12 March. The sample gave a positive result, was taken at the Australian Open. At this tournament, Sharapova reached the quarterfinals, where he lost to Serena Williams. Sharapova said that she does not know what will be disciplinary action.

«I’m not trying to justify the fact that did not know about the ban. I’ve already told you about the letter by e-mail that I received December 22, 2015. Its theme was “The main changes to the program on the fight against doping in tennis for 2016″. I had to give it more attention. But other “messages”? They were buried in the informational mailings, websites or sales letters, “- wrote Sharapova

Sharapova cited the example of the letter, which she received on December 18.. Subject letters, according to the athlete, had nothing to do with doping, but in order to get to the anti-doping information had to go through two dozen unrelated to the topic of links, find the link, enter your login and password to get to the home page three dozen links to various topics, a link to the program changes in the rules for 2016, open it and read three dozen links to material on the fight against doping. Then click on the desired link to open it, to waste down there and find the name of the drug, which she took, and there was given him another name.

Previously, the newspaper The New York Times wrote that Sharapova received at least Making meldonium five warnings in the list of prohibited drugs. According to the publication, December 3, the athletes received a letter, which listed illegal drugs. December 7 sent them a link to the documents published on the ITF website. December 11 WTA tennis players sent a notice of change of the anti-doping rules. December 22 athletes sent another link to the list of banned substances. Finally, WTA tennis players sent a final warning on December 29.

 

Sharapova became the first and only Russian tennis player who managed to win all the tournaments, “Grand Slam” in his career (except for Sharapova, it could still nine tennis players in history). She has twice won the “Roland Garros” and once won the US Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open. In addition, in 2012 she won silver at the Olympic Games in London. In 2004, the Russian has won the Final WTA Championships.

 

In June 2015, the Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, the 11 th consecutive year, was the most consistent athlete by Forbes magazine. How to calculate the publication over the past year before that it earned $ 29.7 million, of which $ 6.7 million accounted for the prize for participating in the tournaments, and $ 23 million – money from advertising contracts

Recognition of tennis. resulted in a break of her relationship with several large sponsors. Contract with her suspended Nike, to renew the contract with the athlete refused watchmaker TAG Heuer. Carmaker Porsche canceled all activities involving Sharapova. At the same time Head sports equipment manufacturer decided to extend the contract with a Russian woman.