Sharapova explained how not notice changes in the anti-doping program – BBC

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, is recognized in the use of a prohibited substance meldonium, in an open letter to explain to his fans as it turned out that she did not notice the warnings from the International Tennis Federation (ITF).

«I’m not trying to find excuses for myself. I have said that on 22 December will receive an email with the title “Major changes in the anti-doping program in 2016,” and I should have paid more attention to him. But other warnings being talked about … they were “hidden” in the mailing lists, websites and brochures.

For example, December 18, I received an email with the title “News for the players.” It was a newsletter with lots of information about trips, upcoming tournaments, rankings, statistics, congratulations on birthdays, and yes -. Anti-Doping information

If you wanted to clarify some details, read this a letter, you would have had to miss the dozens of unnecessary links, explore the main page of the site with a huge amount of information, find the section “For the players”, enter your login and password, and then scroll through the entire main page under “For the players,” is a link to “Changes in Anti-doping program, “go for it, scroll even thirty inappropriate links, as long as you have not found the desired, in your preparation. Then you would have to go to this link to get to the second page and find the name of the drug analog, which I accepted.

I think someone and can be called a “warning”. But most people would agree that this information was too difficult to find “, – wrote Sharapova on his page in Facebook

« In addition, at the beginning of 2016 -. After the introduction of new rules – a tournament we handed brochure. These leaflets thousands of words written in technical terms and fine print. Should I had to learn all this? Yes. But just take a look at the pictures and you will understand what I mean, “- added the Russian tennis player

Earlier it was reported that the doping tests tennis player Maria Sharapova, skaters Seeds Elistratova and Paul Kulizhnikova, skaters Ekaterina Bobrova,. volleyball player Alexander Markin gave a positive result on meldonium. In addition, meldonium has been detected Biathlon Championships Edward Latypova double world champion in the blood, as well as the Russian national players in rugby-7 Alena and Aleksey Mihaltsovyh. The drug was on the list of banned since January 1, 2016.

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