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Q. The verdict on Maria Sharapova’s ban appeal is due later today. Do you think it’s positive if she’s allowed back? Do you think it will be positive for tennis if she’s allowed back on tour after a year?
RAFAEL NADAL: I don’t have all the information, no? Is not good that the people decides on that or have an opinion on that. It’s good that the people has to decide on that decides the right way and do his job. It’s a decision for the people who really knows about it. They going to make the right decision. So that’s all. I cannot pretend to have an opinion. You know, an opinion of this kind of case, you need to know all the information that probably you don’t know, I don’t know. Is not good to create an opinion or write things that maybe are not hundred percent right. Can be painful for some people. I am not agree with that. I am not happy with that, no? There is somebody, and there is a legal instruments that they have to take the decision. They going to do it well because that’s they job.
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see... that is rafa's long-winded 'no comment' X
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cuci mata, @kikiharris |
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Beijing .. 'cyclops_psycho' is waiting in the next round |
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PLAYERS OFFER VARIED REACTIONS TO MARIA SHARAPOVA'S REDUCED DOPING BAN
by: KAMAKSHI TANDON October 06, 2016
Many players have reacted to Maria Sharapova receiving a reduced 15-month ban from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Here’s a sampling of those reactions.
Angelique Kerber
"Actually, at the end, the final decision is out. That's all I can say because I don't know exactly the whole story. I was not into it."
Dominika Cibulkova
"You can only respect that. The decision is the decision. There is nothing else I can say about it."
On her disparaging comments about Sharapova back in April: "I knew what I said. I'm not changing my opinion. I just don't want to talk about it anymore.”
Andy Murray
"Obviously, when I was asked about it yesterday, I was asked about the sentence potentially being reduced. It doesn't mean I've changed my stance.
"…Maria competed at the Australian Open whilst using a banned drug, and then deserves a suspension. The time of the suspension, that's not up to me. With everything that's gone on this year with meldonium, obviously there were going to be some issues with that, legally.
“…But, yeah, obviously it's done now. I've answered so many questions on it this year ... I don't feel like I need to keep talking about it."
Tomas Berdych
"Every single time I have to take something, I check many times with many different people.
"…At the end, you are the player, you are the athlete, and you are the one who's going to be tested. I always check whatever I take because I'm the one who will go for the control."
Marin Cilic
On his nine-month International Tennis Federation tribunal suspension, which was reduced to a four-month suspension by CAS: "I was not treated fairly at all. In my case, the system wasn't wrong. The people were wrong. That's behind me. It went to the CAS—it's quite fair, whatever they say, in most of their decisions. But it's tough to comment on these things because every case is different."
Grigor Dimitrov
On if she’ll have a successful comeback: "As a competitor she’s just going to come back, and she’s going to be so hungry to play, [so] excited and motivated.'
On potentially being made an example of by anti-doping authorities: "If you do something, I mean, obviously there are circumstances. And whoever does something deserves what he gets, for sure."
Richard Gasquet
On the length of her suspension and her comeback: "It's quite long ... Mentally and physically, it will be tough for her.
"…[Sharapova needs] to play enough, and of course it will be OK for her in the future … For every case it is different."
Gilles Muller
"Anyone who gives a positive test should get punished. Should they get a reduction? I don't think so, in general. It shows other sportsmen that ... the punishment is not going to be that big." |
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Maria Sharapova Claims Victory and Goes on the Offensive
By BEN ROTHENBERG
OCT. 5, 2016
With her doping suspension reduced by an appeals court, Maria Sharapova will be allowed to return to professional tennis in time for next year’s French Open. The top officials for the sport’s global governing body are unlikely to be there cheering for her.
Sharapova, who tested positive for meldonium this year after it was added to the list of banned substances, started a public attack on tennis’s leaders after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Tuesday that her two-year ban should be reduced to 15 months. Although the court did not clear her of a doping offense, she said she viewed the ruling as vindication, and she sharply criticized the International Tennis Federation for its handling of the case.
“I let everyone speak for a long time,” Sharapova said in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “I let everyone make assumptions and judge and say anything that they wanted to, and that’s what makes the world go round. But at the end of the day, when this is all over, I knew that I would have the final say.”
Sharapova revealed in March that she had tested positive at the Australian Open for meldonium, a drug banned as of Jan. 1. Sharapova said at the time that she was unaware of the change in the drug’s status, and she reiterated that assertion on Tuesday while faulting the tennis federation for the way it had communicated the change.
Sharapova, whose handlers argued that the ban on meldonium was apparent only with a deep examination of links in emails, compared the federation’s messaging to changing the traffic patterns at an intersection without a sign.
“The I.T.F. didn’t put up a ‘No Left Turn,’” she said. “A sign wasn’t even there; it wasn’t even behind a tree. It was complete false advertisement. It was like it was written on a second-grade piece of paper, folded up and glued to a tree.
“If there was a sign, I’d have been, like, O.K. But through this process, there were no signs. And that was something that was obviously very evident in the C.A.S. report, that there were no signs.”
The federation declined an interview request Wednesday. The group’s director of antidoping told the appeals court that he believed the group’s notifications were “reasonable.”
Sharapova disputed that.
“The delegation that the I.T.F. had with the WTA on checking what lists and emails were going out and who was actually receiving these notices — was it players, agents, their doctors — they had no system in place,” she said, adding: “That’s something that as I look to the future, I make it very clear that I don’t want this to happen to anyone else. And I will be very much involved in making sure that it doesn’t.”
Asked if the tennis federation had conceded any failure on its part, Sharapova scoffed.
“They wanted to ban me for four years; that was their way of conceding to me,” she said, citing the maximum penalty she could have received from the federation at its initial June hearing, before her violation was ruled unintentional. “I spent four days total in hearings listening to the head of the I.T.F. antidoping, Stuart Miller, giving two testimonies. I’m sitting there just shaking my head on how so many athletes and tennis players are in the hands of someone in his position. I really couldn’t believe it.
“I was really shocked how little knowledge someone like him had, in his position. When he spoke about meldonium, he didn’t know anything about it. It didn’t strike him that it was so common that maybe more notice was appropriate for Eastern European athletes.”
When reached Wednesday morning, Miller declined to respond to Sharapova’s remarks. The federation instead issued a statement.
“The I.T.F. did not try to ban Ms. Sharapova for four years, as has been claimed,” the statement said. “The I.T.F. position was that it is the Independent Tribunal’s responsibility to determine what the appropriate sanction should be.
“There has been a suggestion that the I.T.F. should have given specific notice to Eastern European athletes about the use of meldonium because it was so common and widely known. In fact, it was accepted in the hearing by Ms. Sharapova that the I.T.F. did not know about the extent to which meldonium was used by athletes from any region, or that she was using it.”
Sharapova has said that she took meldonium for 10 years because of a magnesium deficiency, dizziness and a family history of diabetes. More than 300 athletes, mostly other Eastern Europeans, have tested positive for meldonium this year.
“Then it was a question of ‘How is this banned when I knew it was legal, and for that amount of time?’” Sharapova said. “I just couldn’t fathom. And then I was like: ‘How did this happen? Something that is so common — are you sure? I mean, my grandparents take it, and millions of people in Russia.’ In the beginning, I couldn’t believe that.”
The appeals court did not conclude, as the I.T.F. had, that her initial use of meldonium had crossed a line into performance enhancement. Several other recent bans issued by the federation have also been overturned upon appeal.
“I think that makes you wonder, makes you think,” Sharapova said of the federation’s recent record in doping cases. “Six bans in a row that have been overturned: You wonder, does the I.T.F. think about it? Is that on their mind? The tribunal that they choose, that they call neutral, by no means is it neutral at all. That part of it does not make any sense.”
Sharapova said she had entrusted her longtime agent, Max Eisenbud, with monitoring changes to the list of drugs banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. In the tennis federation’s inquiry, Eisenbud said his divorce had disrupted his normal off-season ritual of examining the list while on vacation; the federation mocked his routine, asking, “Why it was necessary to take a file to the Caribbean to read by the pool?”
Sharapova said the experience had only made her relationship with Eisenbud stronger, but she also said she planned to have a doctor monitor antidoping concerns for her, including advising her on a permissible substitute for meldonium.
While her case was being considered by the appeals court, Russian hackers penetrated WADA’s athlete database and publicly revealed private medical information about international athletes. The hackers published documents showing that Serena Williams and others had received medical exemptions to use banned drugs.
The hackers said the exemptions were proof of unfairness in antidoping protocols. Antidoping officials said that the athletes had legitimate medical reasons for using the drugs and had followed the rules. Of the athletes with medical exemptions whose records were published, about a quarter are American, although that group is not necessarily a representative sample of all international athletes.
“I think everyone knows how the system works, and that didn’t show me anything except that players requested T.U.E.s and those were granted,” Sharapova said, referring to therapeutic-use exemptions. “The only thing I took notice of was the difference in numbers from certain countries compared to others and the number of T.U.E.s that each country had. But as far as anything the athletes were doing, they didn’t do anything wrong.”
Sharapova said she had kept herself occupied during her suspension with both physical challenges — yoga, distance running, spinning classes — and intellectual ones, like coursework at Harvard and a stint shadowing the N.B.A.’s commissioner, Adam Silver.
“From one point of view, it gave me this reassurance that life without tennis, or after tennis, is fine — and it’s pretty freaking amazing, too,” she said. “I’d never known what weekends felt like. Weekends are pretty cool. In a time of so much uncertainty in my life, I actually felt like I was in control of my own schedule.”
She added: “When you’re constantly playing tennis, you wonder about when you’re going to stop. In this time, I realized that I’m in control of what I do.”
Retirement had seemed like an option for Sharapova, who has struggled with injuries throughout her career, including much of the last year she played. Sharapova, who won a Wimbledon title at 17, turns 30 in April, a week before she can return to competition. She acknowledged that the travel of tennis could be a grind, saying, “I don’t miss getting on a plane to Wuhan, you know what I mean?” But she has no finish line in mind and wants to finish her career on her own terms, she said. She feels healthy and motivated.
“No matter if I’m in the middle of nowhere in Asia or walking into Arthur Ashe Stadium, it’s the greatest feeling that I have,” Sharapova said. “That’s what I miss. I miss walking out onto my stage because that’s been my stage since I was a young girl.”
Correction: October 5, 2016
An earlier version of this article misstated when Maria Sharapova was caught using meldonium. It was this year, not last year.
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so Malaysia, a lesser tennis spot than Wuhan is, is nowhere in Asia to her.
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puchong only..OK?
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puchong only what, ashbecks?
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Mulan replied at 7-10-2016 12:14 AM
cuci mata, @kikiharris
Makin tua makin handsome Rafa  |
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ashburn replied at 7-10-2016 09:22 AM
puchong only..OK?
Boringnya kg u ni ashbeck. Went to IOI mall, sangap!
Padanlah u n Maria long distance je. Boleh mati kutu Maria kalau bershopping kat IOI je  |
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Congratulation my love Nadal & Pablo. Main doubles je la Rafa!
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Post time 9-10-2016 05:37 PM
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by: KAMAKSHI TANDON October 08, 2016
TAGS: MARIA SHARAPOVA, SAMANTHA STOSUR
Former U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur says the CAS ruling sets a bad precedent. (AP)
At the WTA event in Hong Kong, Samantha Stosur said she was surprised by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision on Maria Sharapova, adding that Sharapova should not have been allowed to "get away" with saying she did not know the product had recently become banned.
Sharapova tested positive for meldonium, saying she had taken it for many years for medical reasons. It was prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the beginning of the 2016 season.
"I can’t believe it, actually,” Stosur said. “I don’t even know what to say ... I don’t know how you can get away with that excuse and have that overturned ... I think it’s remarkable that you can use that excuse and get away with it ... It really sets a bad precedence for athletes moving forward, where you can almost put your hands up and say it was not my fault."
Sharapova initially received a two-year ban from an independent International Tennis Federation (ITF) tribunal. The CAS reduced it to a 15-month suspension, and noted, among other things, that she had not received significant warning from the ITF or WADA about the change.
Stosur indicated that she and other WTA players are not likely to get behind Sharapova.
"I’ve spoken to a few people and we all seem to have the same idea," she said "...We had the same idea beforehand, and now we have the decision. So I wouldn’t imagine there’s a whole lot of support from the playing group." |
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Uh oh... Sam Sado has spoken... |
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Post time 9-10-2016 05:39 PM
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Post time 9-10-2016 06:00 PM
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kikiharris replied at 9-10-2016 04:43 PM
Congratulation my love Nadal & Pablo. Main doubles je la Rafa!
Ya lorr.. Rafa has been doing much better in doubles... |
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Mulan replied at 7-10-2016 08:15 AM
Beijing .. 'cyclops_psycho' is waiting in the next round
Haha..baru baca post u ni..actually, I saw this match live kat asteruk tau..to summarize, Rafa main sgt la hauk! dan Dimitrov plak sgt happy atas kemenangan pertama ke atas Rafa.
Nasib baik Rafa main mcm taik, kalau x jgn harap ko nk menang. Hahaa |
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Mulan replied at 9-10-2016 06:00 PM
Ya lorr.. Rafa has been doing much better in doubles...
Bersara je la Rafa tu drp single drp terus diaibkan..lepas ni kalah dgn sape plak dah kan!
Better je la retire as a single player and focus on doubles plss! |
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Post time 10-10-2016 08:41 AM
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cyclops_psycho replied at 10-10-2016 12:19 AM
Haha..baru baca post u ni..actually, I saw this match live kat asteruk tau..to summarize, Rafa mai ...
Hauk tu mmg. Tp bersara dr singles x perlu lagilah..... Rafa masih dlm top5 .... ramai sgt yg lebih hauk lagi |
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Aheheheee.... 
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Post time 7-10-2016 05:22 PM
