Maria Sharapova Announces She Has Failed a Drug Test

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Maria Sharapova says she is takes 'full responsibility' for testing for Meldonium 

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What is 'Meldonium'?

 

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She clears up more on this story in her Facebook posts:

Sharapova said information about changes to the anti-doping program weren't easily accessible, forcing a reader to enter a password and username after reading through a dozen unrelated links.

"In other words, in order to be aware of this 'warning', you had to open an email with a subject line having nothing to do with anti-doping, click on a webpage, enter a password, enter a username, hunt, click, hunt, click, hunt, click, scroll and read. I guess some in the media can call that a warning. I think most people would call it too hard to find," Sharapova wrote on Facebook.

A wallet card with information on banned substances was also given out at tournaments in 2016, Sharapova wrote.

"This document had thousands of words on it, many of them technical, in small print. Should I have studied it? Yes. But if you saw this document (attached), you would know what I mean.

"Again, no excuses, but it’s wrong to say I was warned five times."

Sharapova also defended herself against reports that meldonium should only be used for four to six weeks for normal treatment.  "I didn’t take the medicine every day," she wrote. "I took it the way my doctor recommended I take it and I took it in the low doses recommended."