{"id":5095,"date":"2013-09-16T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tennis-player-cilic-gets-doping-ban\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T02:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:05:07","slug":"tennis-player-cilic-gets-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/tennis-player-cilic-gets-doping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis player Cilic gets doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (Sports Network) &#8211; Croatian tennis player Marin Cilic has received a nine-month suspension for a doping violation, the International Tennis Federation announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cilic, ranked No. 24 in the world, was found to have inadvertently ingested the substance, a prohibited stimulant, as a result of taking glucose tablets.<\/p>\n<p>His suspension is retroactive to May 1, the date he provided the urine sample at the BMW Open in Munich, Germany. The suspension ends Jan. 31 at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Cilic, 24, said the banned stimulant, nikethamide, was contained in glucose tablets purchased on his behalf from a pharmacy. In accepting his explanation, the ITF gave him a reduced penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Cilic hasn&#8217;t played since he withdrew from Wimbledon in June. He&#8217;s been ranked as high as No. 9 in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (Sports Network) &#8211; Croatian tennis player Marin Cilic has received a nine-month suspension for a doping violation, the International Tennis Federation announced Monday. Cilic, ranked No. 24 in the world, was found to have inadvertently ingested the substance, a prohibited stimulant, as a result of taking glucose tablets. His suspension is retroactive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}