The United Nations has suspended Maria Sharapova as a goodwill diplomat after she fizzled a medication test at the Australian Open, the most recent go wrong for the Russian tennis star.
Sharapova had been a goodwill diplomat for the UN Development Program for as long as nine years and had been dynamic in helping recuperation endeavors after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.
"The United Nations Development Program stays thankful to Maria Sharapova for her backing of our work, particularly around the Chernobyl atomic debacle recuperation," said a representative.
"Be that as it may, in light of Ms. Sharapova s late declaration, we a week ago suspended her part as a Goodwill Ambassador and any arranged exercises while the examination proceeds."
"We wish Ms. Sharapova the best," she included.
Previous world number one Sharapova reported a week ago that she fizzled a medication test at the Australian Open in January.
Sharapova tried positive for meldonium, which was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency s banned rundown on January 1.
US sportswear goliath Nike, German extravagance auto producer Porsche and Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer have all stopped their association with the previous world number one.
Sharapova has made visits to Belarus as a goodwill minister and gave $100,000 to bolster youth ventures in provincial regions that experience the ill effects of the delayed consequences of the Chernobyl atomic mischance.
Sharapova s family fled the city of Gomel in Belarus in 1987 after the Chernobyl calamity, moving to Siberia where the tennis star was conceived.
The family lived in Nyagan, Siberia for a long time and afterward moved to Sochi on the Black Sea where Sharapova took her initial tennis lessons.
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