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  • The question must be asked: who did the Russians piss off? They are certainly not alone in all of this, but they are getting pinged let, right and centre. Sharapova gets popped but Nadal's blood bags get destroyed (anecdotally of course).

    Of course as someone pointed out on the previous page, failing a drugs test isn't about testing positive, it's about being stupid (Tiernan-Locke, Ricco etal), so perhaps the Ruskies are just being too damn blatent about it. But a big name like Sharapova, with all that brand power and serious wedge behind her, making a stupid mistake like this? Very surprising.

    Life-pro tip: always read your emails.

  • Exactly. She is a big money-spinner and poster girl for the sport. She is the sort of sports person that is protected, in the same way the UCI swept Lance's positives under the metaphorical rug. Pretty seismic that she has been pinged, so you wonder why she went under the bus.

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