'False Positive' Vindicates Diana Taurasi

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Diana Taurasi didn't come off as bitter or angry. But she's both wiser and warier and a little wounded for her experience over the past few months.



Taurasi was cleared Wednesday when a Turkish lab retracted results that showed the women's basketball star had tested positive for the banned substance modafinil in a drug test following a Turkish league game in mid-November.



Taurasi got the news early Wednesday morning at her home in California.



"It was definitely the greatest sigh of relief," Taurasi said Thursday on a media conference call. "I do feel vindicated. The facts came out, all the information is on the table. Like I said before, that was a road I never crossed and I'm glad it came out."



Taurasi has been staunch in proclaiming her innocence.



The Associated Press reported Thursday that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will conduct an independent review and could suspend the Turkish lab that reported the results, which are now being characterized as a "false positive." Another American player in Turkey, former Old Dominion standout Monique Coker tested positive for modafinil and was cleared this week as well.



But damage has been done.

 

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