Wednesday, March 09, 2016

The goalposts have moved!

I must confess to always having had the "hots" for Maria Sharapova, so perhaps I'm biased, but I find the way the press (or some of them) are savaging her for failing a drugs test a couple of months ago very over the top, and even somewhat vindictive. The facts are that she has been on a certain type of medication for many years for various health problems, but at the beginning of this year this medication was - for the first time -  put on the "banned" list, and neither she nor her team seem to have noticed this and she continued to take it, and it showed up when she was tested in January.  She accepts that she has broken the rules and will be suspended and maybe even banned from the sport. And some of her sponsors are already jumping ship. But perhaps you can see why I got very annoyed at the headline in one paper that asserted she "took banned drug for ten years".

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