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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

So Maria....failed a drug test? Positive for meldonium which just went on the banned substances list January 1, 2016.

'I failed the test and take full responsibility for that. I had been taking this medicine for the past 10 years, but on 1 January this became a prohibited substance which I did not know.

'I made a huge mistake. I let my fans down. I let my sport down.

'I don't want to end my career this way. ... I know many of you thought I was retiring. But if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in this downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/spo...Meldonium.html