The court reduced the disqualification Sharapova. Sportswoman's reaction

Maria Sharapova will be able to return to the court in April 2017 of the year. Photo: depositphotos.com

Sports arbitration in Lausanne for 9 months reduced the disqualification of tennis player Maria Sharapova, which she received because of the meldonium found in her analyzes, writes Air Force

The court officially announced that it had reduced Sharapova's 2-year disqualification to 15 months. Sharapova's disqualification period is counted from January 26 2016 of the year. Therefore, the suspension period ends at midnight on April 25 of 2017.

“I took responsibility from the very beginning, because I didn’t know that the supplement that I had been taking for the last 10 years was banned. I learned how much better other federations notified their athletes about changing the rules, especially in Eastern Europe, where mildronate is received by millions of people, ”he quoted. TASS sportswoman's words.

Sharapova was disqualified by the International Tennis Federation in May of this year. Then the independent tennis federation tribunal reviewed the evidence, listened to the arguments of the parties and concluded that Sharapova had violated the rules of the federation concerning the use of doping.

The federation decision is based on the results of the doping test taken on 26 on January 2016 of the year after the quarterfinal of the Australian Open in Melbourne. It was found Meldony. At the same time, the tennis player declared that she would file a complaint with international sports arbitration.

She was supported in the Russian tennis federation, but even then the president of the organization, Shamil Tarpishchev, said that the complete cancellation of the disqualification was impossible due to the fact that Sharapova herself admitted that she had violated anti-doping rules.

The tennis player then stated that she had been taking the drug mildronate for a long time, the active component of which is meldonium. According to Sharapova, she missed the next update of the list of prohibited substances of the World Anti-Doping Agency. As a result, her doping test gave a positive result.

“On January 1 (2016), the rules changed and meldonium became a prohibited drug, which I did not know about. I received an email about these changes to the list of prohibited drugs from WADA on December 22, and I did not open the link,” the athlete said then.

The scandal with the disqualification of Sharapova was the first loud case of disqualification of a Russian athlete because of meldonium. Sharapova, in addition to other competitions, was removed from the Olympics in Rio.

Later, the scandal continued with the disqualification of several more Russian athletes. All of them said that they stopped taking the drug after it became prohibited, but the timing of its removal from the body was longer than expected. The World Doping Agency eventually relaxed the restrictions on the use of Meldonium by athletes.

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