You're Unbelievable
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 Authority).
“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.
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.
