I'm curious about the timeline. Was it 1. Sotskova tests positive 2. Sotskova gets a clinic to issue her some retroactive authorization or 1. Sotskova gets a prescription 2. Sotskova, upon being told that she tested positive, produces it as justification? Because option 1 seems a lot more shady than option 2.
A clinic that issues prescriptions that it's not authorized to issue is shady by definition.
That is not a thing. It's RUSADA that decides if you get the TUE exception or not. You submit documents from your doctor as to why you need the drug in question. If RUSADA agrees, you get your TUE. If they don't, you don't.
I don't think the reporting is very clear on what exactly was the authorization issue.
Sotskova is not a competitive skater. If she'd been careless or deceptive about these matters during her skating career, that would have been different. But is appears that she was mostly careless about her retirement paperwork, which is not a doping violation in itself.
I urge you to rethink this comparison. It's offensive.
I find the excuses people make for dopers to be offensive. The Kostner incident was particularly vile when it came to all the reasons "poor Caroline" shouldn't be punished for aiding a known doper.
It's prescription only in the US, but I think you may be able to get low doses OTC in other countries. Lasix can be a strong diuretic in higher doses. People will take it to lose weight (you pee it off and you can button those tight jeans for a day), but you have to be carefull as it depletes potassium and can have significant consequences. I can't think of any way it would be performance enhancing.
I gave it to my son to help pull off peripheral fluid and reduce the chances of pulmonary edema. We had to use oral potassium as well to counter the sodium losses. It's possible she used this to fit into her wedding dress, but it's risky taking more than a dose or two, especially at higher dose levels. Long term use is a delicate balance. Given the drug and the circumstances, this seems like an unfortunate series of events and I hate that for her.
The Kostner incident may have been vile and offensive to you, but disagreeing with you on that is in no way comparable to people making excuses for sexual predators.
It's not the disagreeing. It's the making up of scenarios to excuse the behavior. Oh, she must have been trying to lose weight for her wedding! Did she actually say this? No. It's an excuse to minimize the behavior.
But she is retired. Why does it bother you so much what she decided to put in her body now?
There's no need to excuse or minimize Sotskova's behavior because she is not a competitive athlete. She should have sent in the appropriate paperwork about her retirement, but she was not competing and had no intention of doing so again. Therefore, it's completely irrelevant why she took a commonly used diuretic; it's none of our business.
1kg lost in some sports over 1 hour in a hilly profile endurance sport can be 15 seconds of time, so thus this would be the very definition of performance enhancing(taking a diuretic and peeing out the weight). Sotskova probably using it for personal reasons, but the paperwork is not sorted out properly so if she wants to coach she will have to wait now.
I understand that it is also in the west. But somehow it seems particularly sad in Russian circles. I am glad that Tessa Virtue spoke about her own struggles so openly with the constant comparisons and questions about body fat content, bla, bla, bla. But I admired her tenacity and the work she did to get into shape for her Olympics healthily.
Sure, Sotskova contributed to the Russian ban in 2018 and not the institutionalized doping system that was put in place for the Sochi Olympics. You have to love this logic (not to take away from what Sotskova allegedly did, but come on).
Since all my complaints are about the response and not about her, I don't see how you get that out of my posts.
Especially in Track and Field.
Exactly, there is no way in hell he will come to get such information. If he gets this information, then it is very troubling. I agree no way will she have allowed to compete if she had any form of doping infraction. What a complete idiot Ilya is.
Well then she should've filed the paperwork earlier. Not an example of evil Russians, more an example of her not being careful.
No medication is without consequences. Your friends (and Maria) put themselves at serious risk. This medication can cause things like low blood pressure (dizziness, fainting) and low potassium (muscle cramping, nausea/vomiting, arrhythmia, death). Lasix shouldn't be taken willy nilly for weight loss. The only people who truly need lasix are far too sick to be doing any high level skating or dancing. Maybe this is also why the clinic wasn't licensed - it was some pill mill for weight loss rather than, you know, a legit medical clinic trying to help people?
Well, RUSADA doesn't want to make an example of a competing athlete, do they? Much easier to show they're tough on doping by bringing the hammer down on someone that's retired.
