World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has sent recommendations to all anti-doping organizations when decisions on meldonium. This is stated in the message Ministry of Sports of Russia.
The department also pointed out that WADA welcomes the decision on the permissible content meldonium in the body of the athlete. According to the Ministry of Sports, the agency has come to solve this problem « not on formal grounds – immediate punishment of all athletes and showed a desire to understand the situation, the study began, specifying feature excretion meldonium from the body of athletes.” Ministry of Sports believes that WADA « demonstrated impartiality and an objective approach in the fight against doping».
April 13 became known that the WADA has defined the permissible content meldonium in doping samples. The Agency has decided that if a doping sample taken before March 1, 2016, meldonium content of less than 1 g, it is comparable to “the cases of use of the drug before 1 January 2016″. Thus, this indicates that the athlete did not take the drug intentionally after the ban.
If the concentration meldonium in doping sample taken before March 1, from 1 to 15 g or if a doping sample taken after March 1, the drug concentration is less than 1 g, the decision on the punishment for the athlete remains Federation.
on the eve of a speedy solution to the problem with meldonium He promised the Minister of sport Vitaly Mutko. He promised the athletes’ good news ».
meldonium was included in the list of banned drugs from January 1, 2016. However, in March, broke doping scandal – a banned substance was detected in the blood of more than 100 athletes worldwide. Among them were representatives of Russia – Maria Sharapova, skater Ekaterina Bobrova, short trekisty Yelistratov Semen and Ekaterina Konstantinova, swimmer Yuliya Efimova and many others.
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