Athletes suspended for drug use. - Suspended list for doping
The lack of clearly defined criteria for admission caused criticism not only from Russian sports functionaries, athletes and officials, but even in the camp of the principal rivals of the Russians. “I am surprised and shocked,” quotes the words of the coach of the Swedish national team cross-country skiing Ricarda Grippa edition of SportExpressen. - We thought that all the names of the Russians involved in doping had already been named and there was no name of Ustyugov. Olympic Games lose their prestige. I'm sure our guys in the national team are shocked, as am I."
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Some of the criteria used by the IOC in deciding whether to grant or deny admission Russian athletes to the Olympics are not new: they were called to the IOC immediately after making their decision on disqualification Olympic Committee Russia December 5th.
Among those already known are the presence of the names of athletes in the report of the Denis Oswald commission, who heads the IOC commission to verify the facts of sample substitution at the Sochi Olympics, and the defendants in the so-called Duchess list, compiled by the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov. According to him, the athletes on the list took a cocktail of three steroids with alcohol, or "Duchess".
Other criteria were also mentioned: the IOC, for example, did not hide the fact that it analyzed the data of anti-doping samples that were taken from athletes during the Sochi Olympics. Many of the containers for these samples were found to have scratches, the IOC explained, suggesting tampering and replacement. It was also known that the IOC was studying the list of athletes who had expired suspensions for doping.
Most of the criteria, published on Thursday by the IOC, were not previously named. It turned out, for example, that the IOC, together with WADA, checked the presence of the names of athletes in the archive of the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory. This archive was handed over to WADA by Rodchenkov. Analysis of the archive made it possible to determine which sample samples in which doping was detected were recorded in international system anti-doping administration of WADA (the system is called ADAMS) as "clean".
In addition, the IOC, as follows from the published list of criteria, rechecked the doping tests of candidates for a trip to Pyeongchang and the data entered in the " biological passports» athletes, although he did not report plans for re-tests. It was also not known that the IOC would consider the absence of an athlete at the place of special registration in the ADAMS system as a criterion for the removal or admission of athletes. Each athlete is required to provide WADA with information about his movements and trips so that he can be tested for doping at any time.
Checked in the IOC, as follows from the list of criteria, and the values of the so-called steroid profile of athletes - a set of analyzes of metabolism in the body.
The admission criteria also include the testimony of unnamed IOC and WADA sources, as well as “information provided by the federations winter views sports." The IOC does not name the sources and does not say which federations provided it with information.
Russian athletes Yulia Guzieva, Galina Arsenkina, Yulia Portunova and Uliana Vasilyeva (from left to right) during the farewell to the Russian curling team at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang (Photo: Sergey Savostyanov / TASS)
Olympics for young people
Experts interviewed by RBC called the published IOC criteria non-transparent. “This has never happened before in the history of world sports. A small part of the criteria are globally recognized rules, and all the rest are absolutely biased. Anyone can fall under such criteria, if desired, ”said RBC, head of the sports medicine department of Moscow State Medical University. I.M. Sechenov, former member RUSADA Supervisory Board Evgeny Achkasov.
According to Evgeny Slyusarenko, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Internet portal Championat.com, the use of such criteria when testing athletes from other countries would lead to their mass removal from the Olympics. The expert, in particular, questioned the criterion called “location in the ADAMS system”. “Athletes have an ADAMS app that allows doping officers to track their whereabouts and come to that address. There is such a term “flag”: it is put when the doping control comes, but the person is not there. If three "flags" are typed, the athlete will be disqualified. A year later, the "flags" are cancelled. In the life of almost every athlete there is one “flag”. This criterion is quite controversial, because a person can skip the test for a million of the most different reasons”, Slyusarenko emphasized.
Slyusarenko also pointed out the non-transparency of the criterion “additional confidential information provided by WADA”. This criterion involves the use of information from whistle-blowers and "other sources". “I don’t know who these informants are and whether they can be trusted. The data of the international federation - what kind of data is this, according to which a person who is not convicted of using prohibited means can be removed from the Olympics? Slyusarenko asks.
Professor Achkasov believes that a suspension due to a past doping ban is a violation of rights. “How can you be punished twice for the same mistake? If a person has served the prescribed term in prison, after a while we don’t put him again just like that. Since this is the principle, then let's not let all the athletes who have ever been involved [in doping] go to the Olympics, ”Achkasov explained to RBC.
In order to be guaranteed to pass the “fine sieve of the IOC criteria,” Slyusarenko points out, one must be a very young athlete who has not yet encountered the work of the anti-doping system. Thus, those who have already won medals, or those who seriously apply for them, are in the forefront of “removal”, Slyusarenko believes. “It so happened that due to your age you are “clean”. This is almost the only opportunity to get admission to the Olympics according to these criteria. It seems to me that the IOC was very much reinsured, ”said Slyusarenko, expressing the opinion that before the publication of the official list of Russians admitted to the Olympics in Pyeongchang, new names of the leaders of the national team will appear in the list of those suspended.
“This is absolute arbitrariness and oblivion of all principles. What is the passage worth: we have suspicions, and on this basis we remove the athletes. All lawyers have hair on end from this, ”said RBC former director Department of anti-doping support of Rossport and ex-head of the anti-doping service of the ROC Nikolai Durmanov.
In his opinion, the IOC is guided by the principle “we will not let anyone we want”. “All these criteria rely on each other: the McLaren list is based on Rodchenkov’s testimony, the Oswald commission is based on McLaren’s provisions, and in addition, all this is heavily sprinkled with phrases that we still have information, but this is secret intelligence that we cannot disclose,” — said Durmanov.
Based on these criteria, the IOC may remove the still unnamed leaders of the national team, the specialist suggested. “At the very last moment, it may turn out that there are two or three more lost pages from Rodchenkov's diaries. Or suddenly the commission of Oswald or McLaren suddenly remembers something, and right at the Olympics something suddenly turns out, ”Durmanov believes.
However, in his opinion, some of the suspended may still be allowed to the Olympics. “For the sake of PR, the IOC can reverse and allow one or two athletes to say later: you see, we are objective, we are not entirely anti-Russian,” Durmanov said.
The final list of Russians who will go to the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang must be published by January 28, ten days before the start of the competition.
For two years, after traces of cocaine were found in his doping test. "SE" recalls the most resonant cases when Russian football players were disqualified or tried to be disqualified for doping.
A drug: nandrolone
Disqualification period: 2 years
The doping scandal put an end to the career of one of the most talented Russian football players of the 90s. In May 1999, a decent dose of the anabolic nandrolone was found in the midfielder's blood. A couple of months earlier, Shalimov ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital with internal bleeding. The football player suspected that the illegal drug got into his body during treatment, but the analysis of the drugs used by the doctors did not reveal anything criminal. According to another version, doping could get into Shalimov's blood in Napoli itself - after the matches, the team's doctors periodically put droppers with sugar and vitamin C on the players. . One way or another, but in the series A that began a fierce fight against doping, the case of the Russian became indicative and the verdict on him turned out to be incredibly harsh - two years of disqualification. Shalimov could not resume his career after the end of her term.
A drug: marijuana
Disqualification period: 2 months
Alexander RYCHKOV (left). Photo by Efim SHAINSKY, "SE"
Another Russian legionnaire, Alexander Rychkov, was more fortunate than Shalimov - he "got off" with two months of disqualification and expulsion from. In the winter of 1996, traces of marijuana were found in the midfielder's blood. He himself assured that a friend was to blame for everything, who, for the sake of a joke, poured “grass” into the cake, but the French anti-doping fighters did not believe this explanation.
A drug: bromantane
Disqualification period: 1 year
While Yegor TITOV (right) was serving a suspension, he played with Nikolai TRUBACH for the "Artist" team. Photo Alexander WILF
Now we know that the ill-fated bromantane in Spartak-2003 was taken by more than one Egor Titov, but it so happened that the captain of the red-and-whites had to answer for everyone. The test of the midfielder of the Russian national team, taken after the first play-off match with Wales for the right to play at Euro-2004, gave positive effect. UEFA did not understand the intricacies of the intra-club politics of the then Spartak and disqualified Titov for a year. The midfielder stoically endured this punishment and in the 2005 season he returned to his native club and even played several matches for the Russian national team.
A drug: marijuana
Disqualification period: 8 months
The leader of the Vladivostok "Ray-Energy" was caught using marijuana in the fall of 2006. His punishment was slightly more severe than that of Rychkov's "predecessor" - the striker was suspended from football for 8 months. But the Vladivostok club did not terminate the contract with Tikhonovetsky. He served a disqualification, repented of his misconduct and played for Luch-Energy for several seasons. The main consequence of the story with marijuana was ... an unprecedented increase in the popularity of Tikhonovetsky on the Internet. For a while, the name of the attacker turned into a real network meme.
A drug: furosemide
Disqualification period: 10 months
Artur NIGMATULLIN. Photo by Alexey IVANOV, "SE"
CSKA reserve goalkeeper Artur Nigmatullin was caught doping in the winter of 2010. The army team was preparing for the playoffs of the Champions League, so there was nothing surprising in the fact that UEFA specialists periodically came to their training camp with checks. During one of these visits, furosemide, a drug that usually removes more serious doping from the body, was found in Nigmatullin's blood. The young goalkeeper explained that he had taken several diet pills on the advice of ... grandmother. Officials from UEFA did not approve of the grandmother's drug and ordered the goalkeeper to stay away from football for 10 months. After the disqualification ended, CSKA gave Nigmatullin on loan to Mordovia.
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A drug: sudafed
Disqualification period: 1 match
Alexey BEREZUTSKY and Sergey IGNASHEVICH. Photo by Alexander FEDOROV, "SE"
At the beginning of December 2009, when CSKA were fighting for qualification from the Champions League group, the clear sky broke the news that the two leading defenders of the army team, Sergei Ignashevich and Alexei Berezutsky, were temporarily suspended from matches by UEFA decision. Sudafed was found in the blood of both players. It turned out that the army team suffered due to a technical error of doctors who forgot to enter information in a special form that Ignashevich and Alexei Berezutsky were treated for a cold with this drug. As a result, on decisive match against Besiktas, CSKA came out without two key players, but still managed to snatch victory and get a ticket to the 1/8 finals. A little later, UEFA took into account all the circumstances of the case and issued both players a purely symbolic suspension for one match, which they had already served, having missed the game with Besiktas.
Kamila ALEKSEEVA, Ekaterina MASLAK
A drug: furosemide
Disqualification period: 2 years
The names of these two players were included in the very report of Richard McLaren, replete with sensational revelations. Russian sports. Indeed, furosemide was found in the blood of Kamila Alekseeva and Ekaterina Maslak in 2014 and 2015, however, contrary to McLaren's statements, no one began to hide these samples. Both players were punished: they received a two-year suspension. At Maslak, it ended in October, and Alekseeva's suspension expires in March 2017.
Amendments to the anti-doping legislation are planned to apply not only to coaches, but also to instructors, doctors and other personnel interacting with the athlete. Each of them will be able to be suspended from work if the fact of manipulation with a prohibited drug is established even outside the competitive period. Such norms are contained in the draft law submitted for consideration by the State Duma, the second reading of which is already scheduled for early December. At the same time, the deputies will consider an initiative to create an industry certification system sports coaches. The Ministry of Sports told Izvestia that they support both innovations. Experts believe that in order to solve the problem, first of all, effective law enforcement and “anti-doping education” are required.
The State Duma is preparing for the second reading two draft amendments to amend the law “On physical culture and sports in Russian Federation". Both were introduced in September 2017 by deputies from the LDPR, and later supported by the relevant committee, parliamentarians from other factions and the Ministry of Sports. At the same time, the authors of the documents were recommended to finalize them. The amendments are already ready, and in December the drafts are planned to be considered at a meeting of the chamber.
The initiative to suspend coaches for violating Russian and international anti-doping rules implies three reasons for such a decision. The first is if a mentor finds a prohibited drug or proves that he distributed it (both during and outside the competition). The second is an attempt to falsify control samples, and the third is if “facts of intentional complicity” in doping by an athlete are established.
In November, the government introduced its additions to the bill, proposing to expand the Labor Code with a similar norm. Also, amendments (Izvestia has them) were prepared by one of the authors of the project, Dmitry Svishchev (LDPR) and Valery Gazzaev (Fair Russia). The deputies proposed to include in the list of those who fall under the law, “other specialists in the field of physical culture and sports." As practice shows, anti-doping rules are often violated by instructors, specialists in sports medicine or other athlete personnel, MPs said.
The second bill is aimed at creating a system for attesting coaches, including Russian national teams. There are three categories: second, first and highest. The criteria for certification will be approved by the Ministry of Sports. The decision on awarding a certificate will be made by regional executive authorities and all-Russian sports federations.
The adoption of the proposed norms will make it possible to move forward along the path of increasing the level of professional skills of coaches, the effectiveness of their activities, and also, importantly, to attract young personnel to the industry, - Deputy Dmitry Svishchev, one of the authors of the project, emphasized in a conversation with Izvestia.
He said that for the second reading of the bill, a number of additions to it, together with parliamentarians and the professional community, were prepared by the Ministry of Sports. Thus, it is proposed to certify not only coaches, but also other industry specialists. The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation should subsequently approve their list, as well as qualification requirements and the procedure for assigning categories. The assignment of the lowest - the second - category can be entrusted to local governments. In addition, the possibility of introducing an additional qualification category is being discussed.
The deputy stressed that both bills are aimed at improving Russian sports legislation and bringing it into line with world practice.
The Ministry of Sports supports both projects and is interested in their adoption, Natalya Parshikova, deputy head of the department, told Izvestia.
The bills are very important and relevant. The initiative to certify coaches is in line with the instructions of the president and will allow the industry to develop. The anti-doping rule is also overdue and will improve anti-doping measures in accordance with the plan developed by the independent public anti-doping commission, the Deputy Minister explained.
The problem of doping cannot be solved only by changing the law - this is a matter of law enforcement, a teacher at the Russian International Olympic University, a member of the board of directors, is convinced International Association sports law Anatoly Peskov. We need to put things in order first of all sports clubs and federations, to apply existing norms and "implant" a complete rejection of doping, the expert believes.
9 Kazakh biathletes were temporarily suspended by the International Biathlon Union from participation in competitions due to suspicions of anti-doping rule violations, SPORTINFORM reports. The list includes Galina Vishnevskaya, Alina Raikova, Daria Klimina-Usanova, Olga Poltoranina, Yan Savitsky, Maxim Brown, Anna Kistanova, Anton Pantov and Vasily Podkorytov.
The decision on temporary disqualification was taken on the basis of a criminal investigation, which was conducted in Austria and Italy. The named biathletes will have the opportunity to explain to the IBU the information about the violations committed. After that, the International Biathlon Union will decide on possible sanctions against athletes. In April 2018, Valery Polkhovsky left the post of head coach of the Kazakhstan national team. He has been with the team since 2015.
Ex-head coach of the Kazakhstan national team Valery Polkhovsky:“Last year we had a search in Austria, we fulfilled all the necessary requirements of the police. Each athlete, coach and support staff has confirmation that law enforcement agencies have no claims against them. I don't have any more information. During the search we did not find anything forbidden. It's all incomprehensible to me. It was a year earlier, there was a reason - everyone wrote that someone threw something away at a gas station.
Apparently, this situation has provoked interest in what the team is doing. I am sure that the biathlon federation of Kazakhstan will come to its defense. I don’t understand the situation, there have never been any violations in the team, neither by the athletes, nor by the coaches and management. There was no dialogue in the team about this at all. On the contrary, during the summer camp, anti-doping events were held, which were organized by the doping center with the consent of all sports leadership, as it has always been in Kazakhstan, ”Sport-Express quotes Polkhovsky.
quadruple Olympic champion biathlonAlexander Tikhonov:“Tikhonov is always right! After all, in 2007 I kicked Polkhovsky out of the Russian national team with a bang. At the same time, at a meeting of the Russian Olympic Committee, I said that the day would come when we would be disgraced to the whole world. Disgraced. Polkhovsky did the same with us covertly, secretly. I have no idea whether he doped Kazakh biathletes or not, but where there is a trace of Polkhovsky, such things are happening.quotes the words of Tikhonov"Championship".
Eight-time Olympic champion, 20-time world champion, six-time winner of the "Big crystal globe”, Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen: “There are names on the list that are well known professional athletes. But there are also surprises. This story indicates that the International Biathlon Union is working to combat doping. They were suspended by the IBU, not by anyone else.
The reputation of the Kazakhs was no worse than that of other nations. But they were also suspicious. There were police raids. Let's see what facts and evidence will be found. When they're suspended big number biathletes, the thought arises that this is a system. But, as I said, so far we are talking only about suspicions. It is important to understand this, ”TV2 quotes Bjoerndalen.
Communications Director International Union biathletes (IBU) Christian Winler:“We have temporarily suspended 9 members of the Kazakhstan national team, we believe that the anti-doping rule violation has already been proven. We've gathered enough evidence to hold them guilty. The investigation began at the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen. It dragged on, so the results we have only now. Now we are waiting for the explanations of the athletes themselves. They are given the opportunity to present their own position. The IBU will then decide whether the suspension should be overturned. If Kazakh biathletes fail to convince the IBU, then doping cases may be opened against them, ”NRK quotes Winkler.
President of the Biathlon Union of Kazakhstan Yermek Kizatov:“Today our team of 12 athletes is in Idre, Sweden. Getting ready for the first stage IBU Cup, the launch will take place on November 29, 2018. There are four athletes in our biathlon team: Galina Vishnevskaya, Daria Klimina, Maxim Brown and Anton Pantov, who are listed. Under the IBU's ruling, while proceedings are pending on this issue, the above athletes are temporarily suspended from the competition. The remaining eight athletes will fully participate in the first and subsequent stages of the IBU Cup and the World Cup,” - quotes the words of Kizatov official website Biathlon Union of Kazakhstan.
Swedish skier Kalle Halvarsson commented on the victory of Russian Yevgeny Belov in the 15-kilometer freestyle individual race at the World Cup in Davos. - I don't think about it. He was allowed to be here and compete, so everything is as it is.
- This unpleasant situation?
- Yes. You never look forward to... No, it's not cool to compete with those who have been suspended for doping. But there are rules that they can come back and perform, so you have to accept that,” said Halvarsson.
Markus Kramer: Halvarsson should focus on himself and train better
The coach of the Russian national cross-country skiing team Markus Kramer expressed bewilderment about the words of the Swede Kalle Halvarsson to the Russian Evgeny Belov.Belov won the 15-kilometer race today individual race freestyle at the World Cup in Davos.
Halvarsson, who became 16th in it, mentioned the removal of the Russian from the competition last season.
“I don’t understand why he says that. I think it's just ridiculous! None of our skiers have ever had a positive doping test.
Kalle, perhaps, should focus on himself and make sure that he trains better ... No, it is obvious that he does not know how to lose, ”Kramer said.
Martin Jonsrud Sundby: "Belov is a good guy and a great skier"
Norwegian skier Martin Jonsrud Sundby does not believe that the suspension of Evgeny Belov from racing at the World Cup in any way detracts sports achivments Russian.
“This is one of those stories that we wonder about... I don't know if there's more to say about it. I think Belov is a good guy and a great skier,” Sundby said.
Belov was suspected of violating anti-doping rules in Sochi-2014 based on the testimony of the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, and the report of Richard McLaren. Sports arbitration court(CAS) found the Russian innocent.
Belov was temporarily suspended by the FIS from starts, but after the decision of CAS, the suspension was lifted.
