Tbh, I would have believed her more without this “explanation”.
>Valieva was tested at her national championships on Dec. 25, but the positive test for the banned angina drug trimetazidine was not revealed until Feb. 8, after she had already competed at the Beijing Games in the team event.
That doesn’t look fishy at all, of course.
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I too remember as a young and healthy 15 year old often going into my grandfather’s medicine cabinet and accidentally taking some of his heart medication instead of my own (after all, which 15 year old is not regularly taking their own heart medication?).
We can only hope that her grand-father isn’t suffering any complications from this entirely plausible and believable mix-up when he also accidentally took her completely legal and not at all performance enhancing heart medication.
Glad this whole affair is cleared up.
This very responsible granddaughter has very responsible grandfather
This is one of the dumbest excuses I heard since Contador ate at an restaurant and somebody drugged his meat.
Anyway, it’s awfully sad that a 15 year old is in this position. And this is exactly what Russia needed right now since the anti-doping scandal has been going on for years.
Lmao wtf
That explanation is very obviously bullshit. The medicine they found in her urine is a heart medication that would probably not help her performance in competition but can be used to enable more rigorous training as it would improve stamina and speed up recovery. Likely it has been used some time before the competition but it can take months for these substances to leave the body. Her manager has admittedly used similar medicine before with other skaters for that purpose.
A few years ago another anti-ischemic medicine meldonium was added to banned substances list after it was found out that hundreds of athletes, especially in russia and ukraine, used it as performance enhancer. 8% of tested samples in Baku European games of 2015 contained meldonium. So these have been common in recent history and there is no reason to assume this would not be just another similar situation.
I sure hope she was pressured to claim that, or it was a written claim delivered by the team. Because the alternative basically kills the young lady’s career.
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Tbh, I would have believed her more without this “explanation”.
>Valieva was tested at her national championships on Dec. 25, but the positive test for the banned angina drug trimetazidine was not revealed until Feb. 8, after she had already competed at the Beijing Games in the team event.
That doesn’t look fishy at all, of course.
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I too remember as a young and healthy 15 year old often going into my grandfather’s medicine cabinet and accidentally taking some of his heart medication instead of my own (after all, which 15 year old is not regularly taking their own heart medication?).
We can only hope that her grand-father isn’t suffering any complications from this entirely plausible and believable mix-up when he also accidentally took her completely legal and not at all performance enhancing heart medication.
Glad this whole affair is cleared up.
This very responsible granddaughter has very responsible grandfather
This is one of the dumbest excuses I heard since Contador ate at an restaurant and somebody drugged his meat.
Anyway, it’s awfully sad that a 15 year old is in this position. And this is exactly what Russia needed right now since the anti-doping scandal has been going on for years.
Lmao wtf
That explanation is very obviously bullshit. The medicine they found in her urine is a heart medication that would probably not help her performance in competition but can be used to enable more rigorous training as it would improve stamina and speed up recovery. Likely it has been used some time before the competition but it can take months for these substances to leave the body. Her manager has admittedly used similar medicine before with other skaters for that purpose.
A few years ago another anti-ischemic medicine meldonium was added to banned substances list after it was found out that hundreds of athletes, especially in russia and ukraine, used it as performance enhancer. 8% of tested samples in Baku European games of 2015 contained meldonium. So these have been common in recent history and there is no reason to assume this would not be just another similar situation.
I sure hope she was pressured to claim that, or it was a written claim delivered by the team. Because the alternative basically kills the young lady’s career.