Media: meldonium has been banned on the initiative of the United States Anti-Doping Agency – BBC

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meldonium appeared in the list of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned substances after the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on confidential source has been informed that the athletes from Eastern Europe are using it as a drug, says USA Today . USADA then put this issue at the annual symposium, and in October 2014 meldonium was added to the list of drugs for which WADA monitors. At the end of 2014 it was implemented almost 8500 test random samples of urine, stored in the WADA. Mildronat found in samples of 2.2% of the athletes. it is noteworthy that all of these athletes were from Eastern Europe.

The results of this study became the basis for the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency to make meldonium from 1 January 2016 a blacklist.

Recall that in the past few days, it was announced positive results in the near tennis mildronat Maria Sharapova , skater Ekaterina Bobrova , as well as Olympic champion in short- track Seeds Elistratova , skater Paul Kulizhnikova , short trekistki Ekaterina Konstantinova and volleyball team Russia Alexander Markin .

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