Maria Sharapova appeared on TODAY this morning and spoke publicly for the first time since the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced her two-year doping suspension to 15 months.
“For an honest mistake, a two-year ban, I don’t think was correct,” she said.
Sharapova failed a doping test at the Australian Open in January for meldonium, a heart medication that became a banned substance under the World Anti-Doping Agency code this year.
The suspension prevented her from competing for Russia at the Rio Olympics.
She will now be eligible to compete on April 25, 2017.