{"id":254749,"date":"2016-10-04T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254749"},"modified":"2016-10-04T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T11:26:15","slug":"maria-sharapova-doping-ban-appeal-verdict-to-be-given-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=254749","title":{"rendered":"Maria Sharapova doping ban appeal verdict to be given on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sharapova will find out the result of her appeal against a two-year doping ban on Tuesday, says the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Grand Slam winner, 29, was banned by the International Tennis Federation after testing positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian, who said she had been taking the drug since 2006 for health problems, appealed against the ban.<\/p>\n<p>She maintains she had \u201cnot tried to use a performance-enhancing substance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Cas said its decision would be announced at 1 pm GMT on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meldonium became a banned substance on 1 January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sharapova will find out the result of her appeal against a two-year doping ban on Tuesday, says the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas). The five-time Grand Slam winner, 29, was banned by the International Tennis Federation after testing positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open. The Russian, who said she had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}