Bloomberg Law
Oct. 4, 2016, 6:04 PM UTC

Maria Sharapova’s Lawyer: Sports Have Become Big Business

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

This morning, tennis star Maria Sharapova won a partial redemption when an international arbitration panel in London ruled that her punishment for unintentionally violating doping rules had been too harsh.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced Sharapova’s original two-year suspension from tennis by nine months — meaning she will be eligible to return to tennis in April 2017.

The ordeal spilled into the public realm in March, when Sharapova announced she had tested positive for meldonium, a cardiovascular medication popular in Russia and some eastern European countries, and which had been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency in January, according to ...

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