Maria Sharapova’s $30m mistake

Maria Sharpova's "mistake" has seen her dropped by sponsors Nike, Porsche and TAG Heuer.

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How could Maria Sharapova be so stupid? That's "the $30m question", says The Daily Telegraph. For years, as the tennis star candidly admitted, she had been taking the prescription medicine called meldonium. So why didn't she notice when it was put on the banned list by the tennis authorities on 1 January and stop taking it? "Here she is running a $30m operation, knowing that it only exists if she remains eligible to compete," says Dick Pound, former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. "How stupid can you be? If you're taking medicine, surely someone around you checks if it's on the list. It's not that difficult for one of her team to look and say: This is a problem'."

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