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Bollettieri backs tainted Agassi

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Wada : India | about 1 month ago  
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  • Agassi poses beside an electric car in Jerusalem
    Agassi poses beside an electric car in Jerusalem
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  • Pete Sampras of the U.S. eyes the ball during an exhibition tennis match against compatriot Andre Agassi at Venetian Macao in Macau
    Pete Sampras of the U.S. eyes the ball during an exhibition tennis ...
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  • Andre Agassi of the U.S. returns a shot during an exhibition tennis match against compatriot Pete Sampras at Venetian Macao in Macau
    Andre Agassi of the U.S. returns a shot during an exhibition tennis ...
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  • Andre Agassi of the U.S. looks on during an exhibition tennis match against compatriot Pete Sampras at Venetian Macao in Macau
    Andre Agassi of the U.S. looks on during an exhibition tennis match ...
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  • Andre Agassi of the U.S. greets compatriot Pete Sampras after their exhibition tennis match at Venetian Macao in Macau
    Andre Agassi of the U.S. greets compatriot Pete Sampras after their ...
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  • Andre Agassi of the U.S. chats with compatriot Pete Sampras during an exhibition tennis match at Venetian Macao in Macau
    Andre Agassi of the U.S. chats with compatriot Pete Sampras during an ...
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  • Pete Sampras of the U.S. reacts during an exhibition tennis match against compatriot Andre Agassi at Venetian Macao in Macau
    Pete Sampras of the U.S. reacts during an exhibition tennis match ...
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Agassi poses beside an electric car in Jerusalem
I've made mistakes too, but I've done more good than bad," he told BBC Sport. "Let's look at what Andre has done, he funds a school for 400 kids from the inner-city...Agassi, 39, who won eight Grand Slam titles, revealed in his new autobiography that he lied to tennis authorities about his use of the banned...
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  • News Source: BBC | 27 days ago
    Multiple Grand Slam winner Agassi said he lied about using crystal meth to the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in 1997 to avoid a ban. Nadal said: "If the ATP covered for Agassi then I think that's dreadful."...I am disappointed and I hope...
  • News Source: Miami Herald | 27 days ago
    Martina Navratilova compares Andre Agassi to Roger Clemens, saying she's shocked the eight-time Grand Slam champion lied about drug use...Because Agassi didn't own up to using meth, Navratilova says "he's up there with Roger Clemens, as far as I'm...
  • News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | 27 days ago
    I am disappointed and I hope there are no more such cases in future," Federer said at a sponsors meeting at Kilchberg near Zurich. But Federer also noted that Agassi "has done a lot for tennis, both as a player and as a human being". "Today, he...
  • News Source: Reuters | 27 days ago
    Wimbledon finalist Andy Roddick said Andre Agassi remained his hero despite revelations his fellow American took the recreational drug crystal meth in the late 1990s and lied about the reasons for a positive test. Roddick, the leading U.S. men's...
  • News Source: Taiwan News | 27 days ago
    Imagined conversation between literary agent and retired tennis megastar with a dirty secret: "You want to get richer with me?" "How?" "With ker-plunk." "What the hell's ker-plunk?" "A tell-all autobiography." "Why do they call it ker-plunk?" "...
  • News Source: BBC | 27 days ago
    I've made mistakes too, but I've done more good than bad," he told BBC Sport. "Let's look at what Andre has done, he funds a school for 400 kids from the inner-city...Agassi, 39, who won eight Grand Slam titles, revealed in his new autobiography that...
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  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    Andre Agassi's upcoming autobiography contains an admission he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test — a result thrown out after he lied by saying he "unwittingly" took the substance. According to an excerpt of the autobiography "Open"
  • Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.com
    The president of WADA, Jim Fahey, said he was disappointed by Agassi's revelations and expects the ATP to "shed light on this allegation." Agassi, who married tennis star Steffi Graf and has two children, retired in 2006. ...
  • Blog Source: blog.taragana.com
    WADA leader John Fahey said Wednesday he was disappointed by the revelations in Agassi's upcoming autobiography that he used crystal methamphetamine in 1997 and lied to ATP tour officials to avoid a ban. ... Agassi, an eight-time Grand Slam champion,
  • Blog Source: www.scoopost.com
    Andre Agassi has a new memoir coming out at the end of the week called Open. The 39 year-old tennis great reveals that he had a crystal meth addiction in 1997, right before he made the decision to marry his first wife, Brooke Shields.
  • Blog Source: www.gototennisblog.com
    The ITF owes Martina Hingis a big box of chocolates. Heck, let's make it a lifetime supply of chocolates. Or coke. Or whatever she damn well wants. 2. Andre Agassi is going to make a boatload of money on his book (it comes out in ...
  • Blog Source: blog.tennisweek.com
    Sometime after he first tried crystal meth, Agassi writes he was talking through New York City's LaGuardia airport when he received a call from a doctor working for the ATP who informed him he has failed a drug test. Agassi, according to the excerpt
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