Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova will miss the Rio Olympics after her doping appeal was postponed until September by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. She was given a two-year suspension in June after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium. Sharapova appealed to Court of Arbitration for Sport but both the 29-year-old Russian and the International Tennis Federation
need more time to prepare their cases. Sharapova, who has won five Grand Slam titles and the silver medal at London 2012, was given a two-year suspension by an International Tennis Federation disciplinary panel on June 6.
She argued that she had been using the Latvian-made heart disease drug under medical advice for a decade and had not realised it had been added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned list on January 1, 2016. But the panel dismissed this explanation, pointing out that meldonium had been on WADA's "watch list" of controversial drugs for over a year and there had been numerous warnings to athletes about it becoming prohibited in late 2015.
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