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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
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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.
[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-bodySome 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.
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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.
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