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http://www.tennispotting.it/2017/spotting/sara-errani-squalifica-doping/amp/ di SALVATORE TERMINI  8 AGO 2017 I fatti. Il 16 febbraio di quest’anno Sara Errani consegna un campione d’urina all’addetto al controllo antidoping. Il campione viene diviso in due parti “A” e “B” e il campione “A” viene portato al laboratorio accreditato WADA di Montréal. Il campione A risulta positivo al test sul letrozolo e il 7 marzo la professoressa Christiane Ayotte riporta il risultato all’ITF. Come vuole il protocollo della Federazione Internazionale, il campione viene sottoposto a controanalisi e il 2 maggio il verdetto viene confermato: nel corpo di Sara Errani si trova letrozolo nella percentuale di 65 nanogrammi per millilitri. Nel frattempo, il 18 aprile, viene notificata formalmente alla giocatrice l’apertura di un procedimento a suo carico. Sara Errani ha ammesso che il letrozolo era presente nelle sue urine e il “processo” ha dunque riguardato soltanto la sanzione da inf...

http://www.espn.com/chicago/columns/story?columnist=greenberg_jon&id=4468210 Saturday, September 12, 2009 By Jon Greenberg ESPNChicago.com The greatest athlete of our time travels on private planes and in very fast, very expensive foreign cars. When he goes somewhere, it's on his schedule and it's always in style. However he travels, Michael Jeffrey Jordan does not take the high road, as he proved in an oddly compelling speech Friday night. Jordan's Basketball Hall of Fame induction speech in Springfield, Mass., was Jordan at his most honest, his most real. He cried, thanked his friends and family, rebuked his so-called enemies and proved that he is -- forever and ever -- the most competitive person alive. In this sometimes funny and sharp-edged speech, the world's most ubiquitous and successful corporate pitchman proved he was still human. He wasn't selling Nike or Gatorade or batteries or hot dogs. He wasn't pretending he was ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzBMGXfK4c by Michael Jordan, 2009 Thank you. Thank you. I told all my friends I was just gonna come up here and say ‘thank you’ and walk off. I can’t. There’s no way. I got too many people I gotta thank. In all the videos, you never just saw me; you saw Scottie Pippen . Every Championship I won. I’ve had a lot of questions over the last four weeks, and everybody’s saying well ‘why’d you pick David Thompson ?’ I know why, and David knows why, and maybe you guys don’t know why, but as I grew up in North Carolina, I was 11 years old in 1974 I think when you guys won the championship. And uh, I was an anti-Carolina guy – I hated UNC, and here I ended up at UNC. But I was in love with David Thompson. Not just for the game of basketball, but in terms of what he represented. You know, we all – as Vivienne said – we go through our trials and tribulations. And, he did. And I was inspired by him. And when I called him and asked him to uh, stand up ...