Which athletes have tested positive for meldonium? (besides Sharapova & any figure skaters)

[Sylvia]

Starting a separate thread to keep track of the non-figure skater athletes (Sharapova already has her own thread in this forum)...

Swimmer Yulia Efimova reportedly has tested positive for meldonium (Mildronate) in the out-of-competition period: http://tass.ru/en/sport/862978

Yefimova, 23, Russia’s Olympic bronze medalist in swimming, the four-time world champion and many times winner of European tournaments, was given a 16-month ban in 2014 after testing positive for a banned substance (steroid DHEA).
The swimmer, who was considered as Russia’s best hope for podium place at this year’s Olympics in Rio, could face a lifetime ban for another violation of anti-doping rules.

Some 100 athletes have tested positive for meldonium this year, according to the latest reports. The names of 14 athletes have been revealed. Ten Russians are among them: speed skater Pavel Kulizhnikov, biathlete Eduard Latypov, cyclist Eduard Vorganov, figure skater Yekaterina Bobrova, tennis player Maria Sharapova, short-track skaters Semion Elistratov and Ekaterina Konstantinova, volleyball player Aleksandr Markin and rugby players Alexey and Alena Mikhaltsov.

[Russian Sports Minister] Mutko criticises WADA for not conducting laboratory tests into how long meldonium stays in human body: http://www.insidethegames.biz/index...s-into-how-long-meldonium-stays-in-human-body
Excerpts:

Nadezhda Sergeeva, a bobsledder who finished 16th in the two-woman event at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, has also admitted today she has tested positive for the drug.
She claimed she last took the substance in "late 2015" and used it "strictly in connection with cardiological problems which had become apparent."

Mutko has claimed that many of the athletes who have failed tests had stopped taking the substance before it was banned on January 1, blaming WADA for supposedly not conducting tests as to how long it stays in the human body,
"Today, we have received WADA explanations in which it said they had held no laboratory tests to establish for how long meldonium can be present in a human organism," he told Russian news agency TASS.
"They, just like we did, used recommendations for the formula’s use which say that it takes from six to eight hours for the drug to leave the human body."

Russia is not the only country to have had problems, with other high-profile cases involving Ethiopia's Tokyo Marathon winner Endeshaw Negesse, Sweden's Ethiopian-born former world 1500 metres champion Abeba Aregawi and Ukrainian runner Nataliya Lupu, the European Indoor 800m champion in 2013.

 

[Seerek]

Efimova already had a prior 16 month ban, which ended in March 2015, just in time for her to come back and win at the World Championships in Kazan last year over favourite Rūta Meilutytė in the 100m breaststroke

 

[caseyedwards]

Russia just needs to be banned from all sports for a year.

 

[Xela M]

Russia just needs to be banned from all sports for a year.

It's not Russia as a whole who will suffer, but the individual athletes who have given up their lives for their respective sports and would now be told "it was all for nothing".

Russia will have other athletes, other chances at the Olympics, but the individual athletes will not.

 

[caseyedwards]

It's not Russia as a whole who will suffer, but the individual athletes who have given up their lives for their respective sports and would now be told "it was all for nothing".

Russia will have other athletes, other chances at the Olympics, but the individual athletes will not.

The IAAF has already started this. They didn't ban just the Russian flag or ban russian officials they banned the athletes. The IAAF has already started the elimination of athletics in russia for a generation. Its already hapening.

 

[Sylvia]

First meldonium case revealed in Russian athletics: http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-athletics-doping-russia-idUSKCN0WM0NI

But 26-year-old sprinter and 2013 European Championship sliver-medallist Nadezhda Kotlyarova has now tested positive for the substance, the state-owned TASS news agency reported her trainer as saying on Sunday.

"Nadezhda took this substance on her doctors' recommendation for at least half a year but then stopped using it," TASS quoted trainer Sergei Vorobyev as saying.

TASS article in English: http://tass.ru/en/sport/863819

According to latest reports, more than a hundred of athletes have tested meldonium positive. The names of 15 athletes have already been made public. Along with Kotlyarova, they include ten Russians, namely tennis player Maria Sharapova, rugby players Alena and Alexei Mikhaltsovs, speed skater Pavel Kulizhnikov, biathlete Eduard Latypov, cyclist Eduard Vorganov, figure skater Yekaterina Bobrova, short-track skaters Semion Elistratov and Ekaterina Konstantinova, and volleyball player Aleksandr Markin.

 

[caseyedwards]

The entire russian wrestling team will probably miss Rio because of doping.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/russian...-games-because-of-doping-20160322-gnovmx.html

 

[caseyedwards]

Russian swimming target of WADA. Will swmmers be banned?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-24/russian-swimming-doping-evidence-uncovered-reports/7273092

 

[danafan]

Russian gymnast (formerly representing Ukraine) Nikolai (Mykola) Kuksenkov has tested positive. A few articles in Russian:

http://allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=102903
http://allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=102904

Russian gymnastics officials want to verify Kuksenkov's doping test results from the recent world cup event in Stuttgart: http://sportgymrus.ru/fsgr-budet-za...y-kuksenkova-s-e-tapa-km-v-shtutgarte-trener/

Articles say that the gymnastics team stopped taking meldonium in August.

Personally I'm bracing myself for a positive test result from one or more of their WAG team....

 

[Sylvia]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/sports/international/meldonium-russia-drug-doping-hockey.html
Excerpts:

MOSCOW — On the eve of their trip to the world championships in the United States this week, Russia’s entire under-18 hockey team was suddenly replaced with younger players.
If that was not enough to startle sports fans, in recent weeks a rash of withdrawals and substitutions from major competitions has wreaked havoc on Russian sports, throwing into question the lineups for volleyball and even curling teams.
The suspected culprit is meldonium, ...

In Russia, officials have declined to explain the substitutions and absences beyond saying such changes were training decisions made by coaches.
But they have occurred in a whorl of suspicion and questions over meldonium: how long it stays in the body, whether it even enhances performance and whether pressure to avoid penalties from antidoping authorities is pushing athletes out of competition.

 

[barbk]

OK, this part made me laugh, "Also this week, the national men’s curling team was switched out the day before the world championships began in Switzerland."

Curlers need meldonium? Curlers? Of all the sports that might gain an advantage from drugs, would curling ever be on the list?

 

[Spareoom]

Russian gymnast (formerly representing Ukraine) Nikolai (Mykola) Kuksenkov has tested positive. A few articles in Russian:

http://allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=102903
http://allsportinfo.ru/index.php?id=102904

Russian gymnastics officials want to verify Kuksenkov's doping test results from the recent world cup event in Stuttgart: http://sportgymrus.ru/fsgr-budet-za...y-kuksenkova-s-e-tapa-km-v-shtutgarte-trener/

Articles say that the gymnastics team stopped taking meldonium in August.

Personally I'm bracing myself for a positive test result from one or more of their WAG team....

Apparently Afanasyeva is being monitored because she was taking the drug up until August. She hasn't tested positive for anything as of yet, but she's definitely on the list of athletes who are trying to figure out exactly what to do and are concerned. http://www.moyareklama.ru/Тула/новости/304779

 

[Deleted member 40371]

IBU delay doping decisions on Ukrainian biathletes due to meldonium question marks

Decisions on the possible suspensions for Ukrainian biathletes Olga Abramova and Artyom Tyshchenko have been delayed after an expert appointed by the sport’s governing body questioned the scientific evidence on how long banned substance meldonium takes to leave the body.

So this may be good news for Bobrova, if the drugs takes longer to leave the system.

 

[Dave of the North]

OK, this part made me laugh, "Also this week, the national men’s curling team was switched out the day before the world championships began in Switzerland."

Curlers need meldonium? Curlers? Of all the sports that might gain an advantage from drugs, would curling ever be on the list?

The popular image is a curler holding the broom in one hand and a beer in the other. However most elite curlers today go through a rigourous training program. Google "men of curling" or "women of curling".

 

[Skate Talker]

Absolutely - the level of fitness required for top curlers today is very high.

 

[barbk]

OK, maybe things have changed since the late 80's. I saw a Canadian team play a US team at the World Arena, and highly fit was not the way I'd have described most of those folks.

 

[rjblue]

OK, maybe things have changed since the late 80's. I saw a Canadian team play a US team at the World Arena, and highly fit was not the way I'd have described most of those folks.

Um, yeah things have changed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ASMcMillan/status/432385758209392640/photo/1

 

[Skate Talker]

80's are many years ago lol. Back then all the competitors had 9-5 jobs and curling had no money so it was never able to be more than an intense hobby. I would credit the Olympics as the major cause of the shift to more of a sport that actually has the money to pay the athletes to be athletes, though of course many still have full-time jobs, it is becoming less prevalent and the jobs now have to fit into a schedule that includes major fitness training. They have indeed come a long way, baby!

 

[Sylvia]

Also being discussed in the Bobrova thread in GSD but updating this thread as well: http://www.bbc.com/sport/36034369

Athletes caught using meldonium could avoid a ban after anti-doping chiefs said it was not clear how long it takes the drug to leave the body.
Wada announced in September that it was adding the heart disease medicine to its banned list from 1 January.
Since the start of the year, there have been 172 positive tests.
But numerous athletes have claimed they stopped taking the drug last year, prompting many to question how long the drug can stay in an athlete's system.
"There is currently a lack of clear scientific information on excretion times," the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said in new guidance distributed on Monday.
It said that athletes might be able to show that they "could not have known or suspected" meldonium would still be in their systems having taken it before it was banned.
"In these circumstances, Wada considers that there may be grounds for no fault or negligence on the part of the athlete," added the guidance.
On Wednesday, Wada issued a statement saying the new guidance was "not an amnesty" for athletes and they must still explain to anti-doping authorities how the substance was in their body.

Re-posting from GSD:

According to this, the following athletes had the minimum amount that makes them eligible:
Pavel Kulizhnikov (speed skating)
Simon Elistratov (short track)
Ekaterina Konstantinova
Alexandr Markin (volleyball)
Olga Kotliarova (track and field?)
Olga Volvk
Gulshat Fazletdinova (sp?)

 

[Sylvia]

"The World Anti-Doping Agency has announced that the presence in athletes’ bodies of the banned substance meldonium at a concentration of one microgram per milliliter before March 1, 2016 is acceptable."

Article in English summarizing various Russian articles and athletes: http://rbth.com/sport/2016/04/13/doping-russian-athletes-may-escape-bans-over-meldonium-use_584559 (I've posted the Sharapova excerpt in her thread in this forum)

 

[Sylvia]

For @Xela M re. Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova: http://www.swimvortex.com/wada-thro...ifeline-but-yulia-efimova-may-still-struggle/

 

[Xela M]

For @Xela M re. Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova: http://www.swimvortex.com/wada-thro...ifeline-but-yulia-efimova-may-still-struggle/

Thank you! So she's still screwed most likely.

It looks like these summer Olympics are going to go the Vancouver way for Russia

 

[Deleted member 40371]

Thank you! So she's still screwed most likely.

It looks like these summer Olympics are going to go the Vancouver way for Russia

https://swimswam.com/efimova-sends-letter-to-fina-asking-to-lift-her-temporary-suspension/

She is appealing the ban, I believe her sample showed lower than WADA's permissible level.