So Sharapova fails a test for a drug she was using for 10 years. It was legal (or 'not-yet-illegal') until Jan 1, 2016. She claims it was for medicinal reasons, irregular heartbeat, family history of diabetes... but it turns out she was not the only athlete using this drug. A Russian icedancer, two Russian biathletes, a Russian cyclist http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/a137 … est-report http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/katusha … violation/ It all looks rather systematic. Yes it was 'legal'. But it appears it was definitely intended to be performance enhancing. Here's a quote from an article on Meldonium "Some pharmaceutical companies have recently marketed it explicitly as a performance-enhancing drug." http://roidvisor.com/performance-enhanc … gly-legal/ Maria's doing her best to look innocent, while freely acknowledging she was using a legal substance, but her intent in using it seems to have been - as the growing bulk...
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