Drugs in Sport (09/06/16)

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Maria Sharapova has been banned from international tennis of two years which is a good thing, if you ask me.

Because the Russian athlete has been making a mockery of the campaign to clean up sport   with the admission that she has been taking a performance enhancing drug (Meldonium) for many years.

Not only that, but apparently there are hundreds of other Russian athletes who have been taking the same drug across other sports which suggest a doping scandal in Russia on an industrial scale. 

And if you need more evidence of Russia's arrogant attitude towards WADA (World Anti-Dpoing Agency) and the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport, then consider the fact that Maria Sharapova was just recently nominated by Russia to participate in the Rio Olympic Games 2016. 

    

You're Unbelievable (11/03/16)


Maria Sharapova is one of the world's most highly paid athletes and this champion tennis player is wealthy enough to acquire the best, most up-to-date medical advice money can buy.

Yet after failing a drugs test earlier this year at the Australian Open, Sharapova is asking the public to believe that a family doctor (Russian?) had been prescribing her with medication for the past ten years, unbeknown to her team of advisers.

The drug 'mildronate' or 'meldonium' has only recently been added to the 'banned list' after being judged to be potentially performance enhancing, but the Russian tennis player claims that she did not read the latest advice from Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency).

“I was given this medicine by my doctor for several health issues that I was having in 2006,” said Sharapova who mentioned an unspecified sickness, a deficiency in magnesium and her family’s history of diabetes as reasons for taking the drug in the first place.

But 'mildronate' or 'meldonium' increases blood flow to and from the heart, has no known link to diabetes and nor is the drug approved for use by medical authorities in either Europe or America.

So, good on Andy Murray for speaking out and calling for Maria Sharapova to face the music because if you ask me, the Russian champion has brought her sport into terrible disrepute.

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