Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova will miss the Rio Olympics after her doping appeal was postponed until September by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
She was given a two-year suspension in June after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium. Sharapova appealed to Cas but both the twenty-nine-year-old Russian and the International Tennis Federation need more time to prepare their cases.
The Rio Olympics start on the fifth of August.
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