Russia says Maria Sharapova is still in its arrangements for the Rio Olympics tennis competition in August notwithstanding her temporary suspension for fizzling a medication test.
Sharapova has been suspended since a month ago, when she conceded she tried positive for the banned substance Meldonium at January's Australian Open.
Sharapova said she had been taking Meldonium for medicinal purposes behind 10 years and had not seen a World Anti-Doping Agency deciding a year ago that it would be banned for 2016.
Russian Tennis Federation president Shamil Tarpishchev says in an announcement "we truly trust that Sharapova will in any case be permitted to partake in the Olympic Games."
No date has been reported by the International Tennis Federation for a hearing into the instance of Sharapova, who won Olympic silver in 2012 in London.
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