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03-08-2016, 11:34 PM
Maria Sharapova loses 3 major endorsements in one day after her first bad drug test
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Nike, Porsche and Tag Heuer have all severed ties with Maria Sharapova after the tennis star admitted on Monday that she had failed a drug test at this year's Australian Open.
Sharapova, who's estimated to be the world's*highest paid female athlete (http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45imfe/1-maria-sharapova/), said in her an**uncement (http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/maria-sharapova-drug-test/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) that she had been taking the drug meldonium since 2006 for personal health reasons and didn't realize that it had been added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list in January.
Meldonium is used to increase blood flow (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/08/meldonium-maria-sharapova-failed-*****-test), particularly for heart patients, and is **t approved for use in the United States and most of Europe, though it is prevalent in Eastern Europe.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/08/nike-tag-heuer-maria-sharapova/)
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Nike, Porsche and Tag Heuer have all severed ties with Maria Sharapova after the tennis star admitted on Monday that she had failed a drug test at this year's Australian Open.
Sharapova, who's estimated to be the world's*highest paid female athlete (http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mli45imfe/1-maria-sharapova/), said in her an**uncement (http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/maria-sharapova-drug-test/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) that she had been taking the drug meldonium since 2006 for personal health reasons and didn't realize that it had been added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list in January.
Meldonium is used to increase blood flow (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/08/meldonium-maria-sharapova-failed-*****-test), particularly for heart patients, and is **t approved for use in the United States and most of Europe, though it is prevalent in Eastern Europe.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/08/nike-tag-heuer-maria-sharapova/)
More about Porsche (http://mashable.com/category/porsche/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Tag Heuer (http://mashable.com/category/tag-heuer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Nike (http://mashable.com/category/nike/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Maria Sharapova (http://mashable.com/category/maria-sharapova/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Advertising (http://mashable.com/advertising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/6QyNH0byBQQ