Four Russian track-and-field athletes accept activated absolute for the banned biologic meldonium, Russia’s contest arch said on Monday, a acknowledgment which could added accident Moscow’s efforts to annul a doping ban in time for the Rio Olympics.
Despite warnings from sports admiral that a amount of added Russian competitors could accept taken the substance, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told Reuters on March 11 that meldonium had annihilation to do with contest in his country.
But the Russian Contest Federation (ARAF) said on Monday four athletes had activated absolute at the Russian Winter Indoor Contest Championships in February.
“We accept advice that four humans gave absolute tests for meldonium. We will accord with this today,” the Interfax account bureau quoted ARAF arch Dmitry Shlyakhtin as saying.
One of the athletes called was Russian long-distance active best Andrei Minzhulin. It was cryptic whether sprinter Nadezhda Kotlyarova, who appear on Sunday she had taken meldonium, was included a part of the four.
The aspersion will complicate Russia’s attack to prove it is adjustable with anti-doping standards afterwards getting abeyant from all-embracing antagonism endure year afterward revelations of boundless cheating and corruption.
Despite warnings from sports admiral that a amount of added Russian competitors could accept taken the substance, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told Reuters on March 11 that meldonium had annihilation to do with contest in his country.
But the Russian Contest Federation (ARAF) said on Monday four athletes had activated absolute at the Russian Winter Indoor Contest Championships in February.
“We accept advice that four humans gave absolute tests for meldonium. We will accord with this today,” the Interfax account bureau quoted ARAF arch Dmitry Shlyakhtin as saying.
One of the athletes called was Russian long-distance active best Andrei Minzhulin. It was cryptic whether sprinter Nadezhda Kotlyarova, who appear on Sunday she had taken meldonium, was included a part of the four.
The aspersion will complicate Russia’s attack to prove it is adjustable with anti-doping standards afterwards getting abeyant from all-embracing antagonism endure year afterward revelations of boundless cheating and corruption.
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