Tennis company Head defends Maria Sharapova's integrity through drug test controversy
 

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."

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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...


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