Is Sharapova an intentional doper – issue resolved?

This issue has been discussed ad neuseam but it sure hasn’t run its course yet.  Further, all articles, including at 138mph, have been attempts, either subtle or blatant, to either implicate Maria as a intentional doper or exonerate her as an unintentional doper and someone who overlooked the memo unintentionally.   Perhaps there may be another approach which could help to put this issue to rest once and for all.  After all certain cold and hard facts in this case are quite open to all:

1. Sharapova took Meldonium for over 10 years for a heart condition which required her to take this drug which is illegal in the US, where Sharapova was residing for most part of any give year
2. By her own admission, Sharapova upped her dose of Meldonium before important matches
3. Sharapova never declared her use of Meldonium to the pertinent authorities
4. Sharapova did not apply for a Therapeutic Use Exemption “TUE” for her use of Meldonium on a regular basis
5. Meldonium was not a banned substance for WTA players until the start of 2016
6. Sharapova was found with traces of Meldonium in her system in 2016
7. Sharapova claims that she is not an intentional doper, she just did not read the email announcing the ban on Meldonium

Sharapova should be believed and be given the benefit of the doubt and we must accept that she does have a heart condition which is somewhat serious and requires the use of Meldonium and therefore she was not consuming it as a PED even while the substance was not banned, and that she did overlook reading the email banning Meldonium quite unintentionally and is therefore not an intentional doper.

However, now only if Sharapova, ITF, WADA or WTA could just let the tennis community know whether Sharapova has been taking some other legally acceptable medication, without naming the medication, as a replacement for Meldonium or not.  After all, Sharapova did have a serious enough heart condition which required her to mess around with Meldonium for more than 10 years!  Therefore there is no reason for that condition to just vanish simply because Meldonium was banned.  We sincerely hope that Sharapova’s heart is well protected and she is using an equally effective yet legal and acceptable medication either with or without TUE but in full knowledge of WADA and ITF this time around; and a public declaration of that should be well within the medical privacy laws.   Or, if Sharapova’s heart was miraculously cured after the ban on Meldonium then a statement by Sharapova admitting just that should also not amount to breach of any medical privacy laws.