{"id":71945,"date":"2016-03-09T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71945"},"modified":"2016-03-09T20:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T01:45:27","slug":"pound-sharapova-guilty-of-wilful-negligence-in-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/09\/pound-sharapova-guilty-of-wilful-negligence-in-drug-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound: Sharapova guilty of &#8216;wilful negligence&#8217; in drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71946\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12493520_10153178629442680_2544192874618659108_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71946\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12493520_10153178629442680_2544192874618659108_o.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Sharapova (Photo from Sharapova's official Facebook account)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12493520_10153178629442680_2544192874618659108_o.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12493520_10153178629442680_2544192874618659108_o-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12493520_10153178629442680_2544192874618659108_o-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12493520_10153178629442680_2544192874618659108_o-1024x785.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Sharapova (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharapova\" target=\"_blank\">Sharapova&#8217;s official Facebook account<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON\u2014The former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency says Maria Sharapova was guilty of \u201cwilful negligence\u201d for using meldonium, and international tennis officials knew that many players were taking the drug before it was banned this year.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal lawyer Dick Pound tells The Associated Press that Sharapova could face a ban of up to four years unless she can prove mitigating circumstances to explain her positive test for meldonium at the Australian Open in January.<\/p>\n<p>Meldonium, a Latvian-manufactured drug designed to treat heart conditions, was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency&#8217;s banned list on Jan. 1 after authorities noticed widespread use of the substances among athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Sharapova said she had been using the drug for 10 years for various medical issues. She said she didn&#8217;t realize it had been banned this year.<\/p>\n<p>Pound says \u201cit was wilful negligence to miss that.\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\u2014The former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency says Maria Sharapova was guilty of \u201cwilful negligence\u201d for using meldonium, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-stephen-wilson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}