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03-11-2016, 01:40 AM
Tennis company Head defends Maria Sharapova's integrity through drug test controversy
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**t all of Maria Sharapova's sponsors are jumping ship.
As some of the tennis star's biggest corporate backers abruptly cut ties with her this week over a failed drug test, Austrian racket brand Head said Thursday that it plans to extend her endorsement contract, calling her drug use an "honest mistake."
SEE ALSO: Maria Sharapova loses 3 major endorsements in one day after her first bad drug test (http://mashable.com/2016/03/08/nike-tag-heuer-maria-sharapova/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Sharapova an**unced Monday that a drug test at the Australian Open in January had turned up a substance called meldonium, which she says she has taken since 2006 for personal health reasons. She claims she didn't realize that it had been added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list that same month. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/head-maria-sharapova-sponsor/)
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**t all of Maria Sharapova's sponsors are jumping ship.
As some of the tennis star's biggest corporate backers abruptly cut ties with her this week over a failed drug test, Austrian racket brand Head said Thursday that it plans to extend her endorsement contract, calling her drug use an "honest mistake."
SEE ALSO: Maria Sharapova loses 3 major endorsements in one day after her first bad drug test (http://mashable.com/2016/03/08/nike-tag-heuer-maria-sharapova/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Sharapova an**unced Monday that a drug test at the Australian Open in January had turned up a substance called meldonium, which she says she has taken since 2006 for personal health reasons. She claims she didn't realize that it had been added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned substance list that same month. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/head-maria-sharapova-sponsor/)
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