Many 15 year olds (and even much younger) need both daily preventative and acute migraine medicine.
OMG, that’s bad! So she may have taken something that’s not even banned substance, and yet she has been named (and shamed) in public media as a skater who failed drug test. So even if they now find out that she (and her coaching team) didn’t do anything wrong, her name has already been smeared and people here have been even jumping to conclusions and blaming the coaches. Wow…. Imagine the pressure on a 15 year old, who has been named in media and she may be completely innocent!
Even children get migraines, as per Mayo clinic.
www.mayoclinic.org
I'm all for bringing Tuk now. This whole thing has a left a bad taste in my mouth and I wasn't into age restrictions before, but now I am convinced that ALL athletes should be 18 when they set foot at the Olympic games. I like teenage athletes, but this shows how vulnerable they are to the decisions of adults. She already has the advantage of youth, state sponsored training, yet still has to be given drugs. I don't think a trace amount is an accident. Her training mates are probably on that stuff as well. I guess we don't care what their health is like at age 40 so long as they can perform while they are teenagers.
Google is your friend!
But if the test was from a substance that is not banned, she would not necessarily do the paperwork for that.
10 percent is not many. How many of that 10% actually are elite athletes?Google is your friend!
10% children aged 5-15 and 28% of teens get migraines. You must live a very sheltered life if you don’t know anyone who has them as teenagers, because it is pretty common!
Migraine Headaches in Kids: Signs, Triggers & Treatment Options
In this article, the American Academy of Pediatrics describes signs, symptoms and causes of migraines and how to help children and teens dealing with them.www.healthychildren.org
She is a teenager. As per the link I posted, it says 28% of teenagers, that’s nearly every third. That’s a lot!
And why it wasn't listed on any reports.
Yeah, and how many of that 28% are elite level athletes? I seriously doubt that any teenager who suffers from acute migraines enough so they need to be prescribed a migraine medication are going to be competing at a world class level in the sport of figure skating. Surely we would have heard of a few examples over the years, right?
I don’t know how many elite athletes have migraines. Google it if you are interested. But even if it wasn’t 28% but just 1%, it doesn’t mean that she can’t have it. Hanyu has asthma. How many percent elite athletes have asthma? Probably not many, but as you see, there are some.
That particular medicine is not banned and it looks like they only found out last yr. that you can't prove the heart medication has been taken if person is on the migraine meds. Would they be obliged to tell the parents that they were feeding her the drug? Who knew?It sounds dangerous as it lets you do more extensive training even though you are not getting enough oxygen in your blood. This is really scary. My last hospital stay was due to a drug I was taking (which is taken by thousands Upon thousands without many side effects)which was poisoning me. It takes a while to take effect (months)but when it did I had breathing problems and could only walk a few steps. The doctor tested me and it looked like the problem was my heart. The heart problem jumped up because of how little oxygen I had in my blood which of course caused the breathing problems as well. To correct it I had 6 red blood transfusions, 3 platelets transfusions and 4 daily shots of white blood cell stuff. Terrible things could have happened to that girl whose parents entrusted her care to a monster like Eteri.
It was a sample from December.
They may even be giving migraine meds to mask heart drugs. Everyone is so caught up in her age and that she is vulnerable, but it permits the adults who are doing this to her to get away with this. When China was doping its female swimmers, many questioned why their men did not get similar results. This disparity existed under East Germany as well, their females were more successful than the men. Russia has strong men who struggle with consistency. A man has larger capacity to do a packed program than the women due to a larger heart, larger muscles etc, yet none of their men are doing packed programs and landing all those quads jumps. Valieva looks like a superwoman out there landing all those jumps and doing all those transitions and being consistent. How come it doesn't translate to the men? It goes for the other two as well. They are the only kids who are consistently doing quads. Even Alyssa's quads have been sidelined due to puberty. Yet somehow the whole world is deficient. Yet Nathan Chen just won an OGM with a ton of quads.
In one of the articles yesterday shown that some drugs you are not allowed during a competition and others you are not allowed at all. This one you are not allowed at any time. She tested positive on a random urine drug test in December. It is for heart disease. If she actually has the heart disease I guess she could get a medical exemption certificate but it most be submitted before.
I doubt she has heart disease though.
You never know.
If each athlete had to report each and every teeny tiny itty-bitty to the authorities, there would never be an ending to it.
She doesn't have to report having migranes, just the medication.
The migraine meds are not banned. ONly the angina ones. The angina ones allows you to train harder and longer and although at that rate your blood does not have enough oxygen the drug blocks you feeling the damage and you push on.
I do feel sorry for you.
Nobody seems to believe in innocent until proven guilty.
