Second Russian competitor tests positive for doping at Winter Olympics
Nadezha Sergeeva, who completed twelfth in the two-lady bobsleigh, has turned into the second Russian to test positive for a prohibited substance at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. As indicated by reports in the Russian media, the substance included was trimetazidine, a stimulant generally used to treat patients experiencing angina.
The revelation of another positive doping test comes only 24 hours after the Russian styler Alexander Krushelnitsky was stripped of an Olympic bronze award.
The news will load additionally weight on the Universal Olympic Board, who will meet on Saturday to choose whether the Russian group will be permitted to walk under their own banner at Sunday's end function. As things stand, the Russian Olympic Board of trustees is restricted, albeit 168 of the nation's competitors have been contending in Pyeongchang under the Olympic Competitors from Russia flag Alexander Zubkov, leader of the Russian Bobsleigh Alliance, affirmed Sergeeva's certain test to Russian daily paper Game Express.
Zubkov said that the 30-year-old Sergeeva, who completed second in the European Titles in Winterburg prior this year with Nedezha Paleeva, had tried negative in an out-of-rivalry test on February 13 yet restored a positive test five days after the fact.
Sergeeva was additionally among a few Russians who tried positive for meldonium in 2016, after it was put on World Hostile to Doping restricted rundown.
In any case she was cleared after Wada embraced a pardon for competitors who had a low dosage.
It is trusted that 30-year-old Sergeeva tried positive at Pyeongchang 2018 subsequent to ingesting the restricted substance in a nose splash. Trimetazidine is a similar medication that China's three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang tried positive for in 2014 and served a mystery three month boycott.
Zubkov asserted that Sergeeva had tried negative in an out-of-rivalry test on February 13 however restored a positive test five days after the fact.
Prior this week, Russian mentor Sergey Belanov said he trusted that Krushelnitsky had been encircled. "It's only doltish to utilize a solitary dosage of meldonium," he said. "It doesn't work that way, the medication needs a course to reestablish the heart muscle."
He included: "We live in an inn in the Olympic Town. Consistently a man of five goes through the rooms without us. There comes housekeeping, and totally extraordinary individuals: the grandmas clearing the floor, the youthful folks and young ladies in cloth dressings convey towels to change. Supplant the jug with another, with the defiled substance – yes it is simple!"
Having required the Russian Olympic Board of trustees to consider separating the majority of its competitors later on to stop additionally subverts he drew a weird parallel with Krushelnitsky's case and compound assaults in Syria.
"I have an entire similarity with what is going on in Syria with concoction assaults," Belanov said. "How is it sorted out there? The posse, secured by the US armed force, brings chlorine and taints an area. At that point the folks in white arrive, they remove this hogwash crudely and impolitely, despite the fact that plainly everything is sewn with white strings."
The revelation of another positive doping test comes only 24 hours after the Russian styler Alexander Krushelnitsky was stripped of an Olympic bronze award.
The news will load additionally weight on the Universal Olympic Board, who will meet on Saturday to choose whether the Russian group will be permitted to walk under their own banner at Sunday's end function. As things stand, the Russian Olympic Board of trustees is restricted, albeit 168 of the nation's competitors have been contending in Pyeongchang under the Olympic Competitors from Russia flag Alexander Zubkov, leader of the Russian Bobsleigh Alliance, affirmed Sergeeva's certain test to Russian daily paper Game Express.
Zubkov said that the 30-year-old Sergeeva, who completed second in the European Titles in Winterburg prior this year with Nedezha Paleeva, had tried negative in an out-of-rivalry test on February 13 yet restored a positive test five days after the fact.
Sergeeva was additionally among a few Russians who tried positive for meldonium in 2016, after it was put on World Hostile to Doping restricted rundown.
In any case she was cleared after Wada embraced a pardon for competitors who had a low dosage.
It is trusted that 30-year-old Sergeeva tried positive at Pyeongchang 2018 subsequent to ingesting the restricted substance in a nose splash. Trimetazidine is a similar medication that China's three-time Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang tried positive for in 2014 and served a mystery three month boycott.
Zubkov asserted that Sergeeva had tried negative in an out-of-rivalry test on February 13 however restored a positive test five days after the fact.
Prior this week, Russian mentor Sergey Belanov said he trusted that Krushelnitsky had been encircled. "It's only doltish to utilize a solitary dosage of meldonium," he said. "It doesn't work that way, the medication needs a course to reestablish the heart muscle."
He included: "We live in an inn in the Olympic Town. Consistently a man of five goes through the rooms without us. There comes housekeeping, and totally extraordinary individuals: the grandmas clearing the floor, the youthful folks and young ladies in cloth dressings convey towels to change. Supplant the jug with another, with the defiled substance – yes it is simple!"
Having required the Russian Olympic Board of trustees to consider separating the majority of its competitors later on to stop additionally subverts he drew a weird parallel with Krushelnitsky's case and compound assaults in Syria.
"I have an entire similarity with what is going on in Syria with concoction assaults," Belanov said. "How is it sorted out there? The posse, secured by the US armed force, brings chlorine and taints an area. At that point the folks in white arrive, they remove this hogwash crudely and impolitely, despite the fact that plainly everything is sewn with white strings."
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