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Maria Sharapova, who has long been the world's richest female athlete, will be suspended from tennis after she admitted to failing a drug test at the Australian Open in January.
玛利亚·莎拉波娃日前承认自己未通过一月份澳网公开赛的药检，并将面临禁赛。长久以来，莎拉波娃一直是全世界最富有的女性运动员。
A sombre looking Sharapova, speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles Monday, said she'd been taking the drug, meldonium, since 2006 and didn't realize it was declared a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at the start of 2016.
The International Tennis Federation1, about an hour after her admission, then said on its website that the 28-year old would be provisionally banned from March 12 "pending2 determination of the case." The usual penalty for first-time offenders3 is two years.
"A few days ago I received a letter from the (International Tennis Federation) that I failed a drug test at the Australian Open," the five-time grand slam winner said in the press conference that was streamed live on Sharapova's website. "I did fail the test and take full responsibility for it.
"For the past 10 years I have been given a medicine called mildronate by my doctor, my family doctor, and a few days ago after I received the ITF letter I found out that it also has another name, meldonium, which I did not know.
"It's very important for you to understand for 10 years this medicine was not on WADA's banned list and I had been legally taking the medicine for the past 10 years. But on January 1 the rules had changed and meldonium became a prohibited substance, which I had not known."
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