Athletes suspended for drug use. Titov, Shalimov and other Russian players who were suspended for doping
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To remove the Russian national team from participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics, to impose sanctions on the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) - this decision was made by the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at a meeting on the evening of December 5 in Lausanne, Switzerland. IOC Chairman Thomas Bach said that some Russians are allowed to compete in Korean PyeongChang under a neutral, white flag - as an "Olympic athlete from Russia." In addition, Russian athletes will be able to take part in the closing ceremony of the Games. But neither the flag nor the anthem of Russia should be present at the Olympics. Russia is also obliged to cover the costs of the IOC commissions for the investigation - $ 15 million. Membership in the IOC of the head Olympic Committee Russia (ROC) Alexander Zhukov suspended. Former Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation (now Deputy Prime Minister) Vitaly Mutko is banned from attending the Olympic Games for life. Former General Director of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko (now President of the Continental hockey league(KHL) removed from the coordinating commission of the Beijing 2022 Olympics...
Many expected tough decisions in Lausanne regarding Russia. (In addition, there were signals from insiders: the IOC had already ordered a batch of uniforms from Nike for Russian athletes"neutral color" with the inscription "Olympic athlet from Russia" - "Olympic athlete from Russia").
But few expected a whole package of tough decisions: “We have never encountered such manipulation and fraud before,” commented the IOC decision, the head of one of the IOC commissions investigating the unprecedented doping violations of the Russian side during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Its experts said that the Russian system of doping fraud can only be compared with the one that was once created in the GDR.
Russia has the right to appeal the decision of the IOC to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is also located in Lausanne. But the chances of a successful appeal, experts say, are negligible.
February 2014: Sochi triumph
Late on the evening of February 23, 2014, after Olympic Stadium"Fisht" in Sochi completed a colorful closing ceremony XXII winter Olympic Games, President Putin, Minister of Sports Mutko and his deputy Yuri Nagornykh, head of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov, director general of the organizing committee of the games Dmitry Chernyshenko and several other responsible officials, secluded in a small room, drank a glass of champagne in a "narrow circle". Everyone was in high spirits, including Putin, even though the news from the capital of Ukraine was more disturbing day by day: on the night of 21/22, President Yanukovych fled from Kiev, embraced by the “revolution of dignity”. During the closing ceremony of the Games at the Sochi stadium, cameras repeatedly caught the sullen face of Putin, dressed in a dark gray leather coat. But the euphoria from sports victories outweighed the geopolitical hardships for a short time: after all, Russia became the leader of the Sochi Games in the team medal standings - 33 medals, of which 13 were gold, 11 silver and 9 bronze. Thus, the record of the Soviet team (29 medals), obtained in 1988 at the Olympics in Calgary, Canada, was broken.
But in addition to the awards, the Games were also evidenced by 11 Olympic venues built on time and in accordance with world standards, and 25 thousand volunteers who promptly and kindly served the crowds of guests: 1 million 322 thousand people visited the Sochi Olympics. The 1.5 trillion rubles spent on preparations for the Games (data from the Olimpstroy Group of Companies) seemed to have certainly paid off.
The world press wrote a lot about how successfully Russia used soft-power in Sochi. And when the annexation of Crimea soon followed, many international observers even wondered whether Putin needed to cross out all the image achievements of the Sochi Games in one fell swoop.
The leadership lasted exactly 3 years and 9 months, until November 2017. And then the IOC began to take away medals from our athletes one after another: skier Alexander Legkov was the first to lose two of his Sochi medals, followed by four more of his fellow skiers, the next losses were two medals in bobsleigh, four in skeleton, one in speed skating, then two more women's biathlon, then two more - in the men's ... By the beginning of December, the Russian team finally and irrevocably lost its first place in Sochi - more than two dozen athletes were disqualified for violating anti-doping rules, the results of their performances were canceled. In the team standings, Russia dropped from first to sixth place.
November 2015: Run to Rio
An international scandal erupted on November 9, 2015, after a special commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published (RUSADA).
WADA accused the Russian agency of destroying 1,400 doping test results of Russian athletes after the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The 323-page document testified to widespread corruption and massive use, including by eminent athletes, of prohibited substances. According to WADA, the removal of samples was done at the request of the Russian Ministry of Sports and the FSB. Based on the results of the investigation, the commission recommended International Association athletics federations (IAAF) to disqualify the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF). In addition, the commission demanded that five athletes be disqualified for life. The list includes Maria Farnosova ( Olympic champion 2012), Ekaterina Poistogova ( bronze medalist Olympics), Anastasia Bazdyreva, Kristina Ugarova and Tatyana Myazina.
The investigation on which the commission relied in its document was largely based on the testimony and materials of a married couple: the former chief specialist of the Russian anti-doping service, Vitaly Stepanov, and his wife, Yulia Stepanova. She is a member of the Russian national team athletics was able to record several video and audio clips that formed the basis of the case. The records show how Russian coaches and sports officials persuade athletes to take doping and give them illegal drugs. The athlete's husband, in turn, told the commission about systematic violations during anti-doping checks. The same materials formed the basis documentary film the famous German journalist Hajo Seppelt, shown by the ARD TV channel. The investigative film "Top Secrets of Doping: How Russia Produces its Winners" was aired a year before the publication of the commission's report - in December 2014. (By the way, Seppelt, who covered the session of the IOC Executive Committee in Lausanne, in response to the request of the correspondent of the Rossiya-1 TV channel for an interview, called the guards and warned: “In next time do not even try").
After the publication of the WADA report, events began to develop rapidly.
November 10, 2015 Grigory Rodchenkov, head of RUSADA's Moscow laboratory, resigned.
Photo: The New York Times
11th of November French police arrested the former head of the International Association of Athletics Federations Lamine Diack.
the 13th of November The IAAF Council suspended the membership of the Russian Federation for an indefinite period. Despite critical situation, IOC President Thomas Bach nevertheless suggested then that Russian athletes could still go to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 2016. Apparently, hoping for this, the ARAF then agreed with this decision, did not challenge it, and even expressed its readiness to cooperate and implement the recommendations of the IAAF inspectors.
"It was key moment for Russia, when it was still possible to turn around, to return the situation to normal: to carry out reforms in the doping control system, to establish the admission of WADA doping officers to Russian athletes and inspectors to closed cities, in a word, to establish a climate of mutual trust, - says NT Canadian sports analyst Gilles Carbonneau. “But instead, Russian sports officials began to deny everything.”
2016: Salt, water, Duchess
January 2016 the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory (RUSADA structure), 56-year-old Grigory Rodchenkov, is leaving Russia for the United States. The reason is fears for their safety.
And already in February of the same year, two former RUSADA employees died unexpectedly and suddenly in Russia - February 3rd Vyacheslav Sinev died, and The 14th of February Nikita Kamaev.
Later, in an interview with The New York Times, the escaped Rodchenkov suggested that Kamaev's death was connected, among other things, with the fact that he wrote memoirs that were later to be included in the book. According to Rodchenkov, he warned Kamaev that at least the book should not be written on a computer and announced publicly. Rodchenkov himself, as it turned out, kept a handwritten diary. The entries in 2014 were made with a pen donated by Kamaev.May 2016 Rodchenkov gave a detailed interview to The New York Times, which had the effect of a bombshell. Rodchenkov explained in detail how the urine tests given by athletes before the Sochi Olympics were substituted.
Every evening he received from sports officials a list of athletes whose samples needed to be swapped. Athletes also submitted photos of their completed doping control form to determine which urine sample was theirs.
On receiving the signal, usually after midnight, Rodchenkov went to room 124, which was adjacent to the sampling site (room 125), where the cherished bottles of urine were kept. Room 124 was officially designated as a warehouse, but Rodchenkov and his team turned it into a laboratory.
Through a hole made in the wall between the two rooms, Rodchenkov passed hermetically packed samples to the neighboring "warehouse". There they were picked up, according to Rodchenkov, an FSB officer, taken to a nearby building and returned some time later with the lids open but intact. (Later in the WADA report, the name of the officer in charge of the substitution was named Evgeny Blokhin).
And already Rodchenkov and his team filled the bottles with "clean" urine - the one that the athletes passed some time before the Games. If necessary, ordinary table salt and water were added to it - a professional chemist and athlete Rodchenkov knew well how to make sure that the sample did not arouse suspicion.
He also knew perfectly well what to do to make the athletes win. In his diaries, which The New York Times published just a week before the IOC decision on the participation of the Russian team at the Pyeongchen Olympics, as the leadership of the Center sports training The national team watered the athletes with the Duchess cocktail developed by him - a mixture of three anabolics and a martini.
“Athletes all over the world are guilty of doping, and in terms of the number of athletes punished for doping, the United States is ahead of Russia. But only in Russia, at least to date, doping has functioned as an institutional system.”
July 2016: The McLaren Report
Based on the diary and testimony of Rodchenkov, whose whereabouts in America are carefully hidden (many are convinced that he fell under the witness protection program), a new WADA report appeared in July 2016 - the now disavowing triumph of the Sochi Games. The report became known under the name of the head of the WADA commission to investigate allegations of doping fraud at the 2014 Olympics, Richard McLaren, a law professor from the University of Western Ontario (Canada).
Richard McLaren
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In the first part, published on July 18, 2016, the McLaren Commission charged Russia with the same accusations as with the London Olympics - the use of doping, the substitution of samples by the Moscow and Sochi anti-doping laboratories, the concealment and destruction of positive samples. All this, according to the commission, sports officials did with the knowledge and with the participation of employees of the Ministry of Sports. In addition, the FSB was responsible for ensuring clean sample results.
Here are just a few key takeaways from the report:
The Moscow laboratory worked under the total control of state bodies.
Sample Disappearance Methodology was a government-managed system approved after a failed performance Russian Olympians at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.<…>
Through the efforts of the FSB, a method was developed to discreetly open the containers with analyzes in order to ensure the substitution of samples. The cornerstone was the formation of a bank of clean samples, from which samples were taken for replacement.
At a convenient time, usually around midnight, when no one else was in the room, the staff member would pass the A and B samples of protected athletes through a hole in the wall,<…>where Dr. Rodchenkov and others were waiting for them.
The FSB had an operating room and a bedroom on the 4th floor of the laboratory building, and FSB Blokhin had access to the laboratory under the guise of a plumber.<…>Witnesses say that Blokhin entered the building in the evening, when others were leaving.<…>Blokhin brought clean samples (B) of athletes to the laboratory from the FSB building.
The very next day after the publication of the report, July 19, 2016, the IOC executive committee made preliminary decisions regarding the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It was decided that officials from the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation and any persons affected by the report, including coaches and athletes, would not receive accreditation at the Games. As for the athletes, the issue of their participation should have been decided by the relevant sports federations on an individual basis. As a result, 107 athletes were admitted to the Games. A tougher decision was made on the Paralympians. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) did not allow them to the Games, and the Sports arbitration court(CAC) in Lausanne (Switzerland) later confirmed this decision.
December 2016 McLaren presented the second part of the report (150 pages) on the use of doping in Russian sports. According to the report, Russia used a "unique deception scheme" that involved more than a thousand athletes representing winter and summer views sports. However, not a single name of the athletes was named.
The WADA report claimed that former Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko and his deputy Yuri Nagornykh were involved in the manipulation of doping samples. McLaren was confident that in 2012, with the help of Rodchenkov, doping in Russia moved from a regime of "uncontrolled chaos" to a "legalized, controlled and disciplined" system.
In general, the new McLaren report fully confirmed the conclusions contained in its first part. The second report indicated that 44 Sochi Olympic medal-winning samples had been rechecked, and 12 of them contained damage and marks inside the test tubes. In the samples of two gold medalists of the Sochi Olympics at once, they found such an amount of salt that cannot be present in the urine of a healthy person (Rodchenkov still oversalted). The names of the athletes were not called, but it was noted that these two athletes won four Olympic gold. In addition, two members of the Russian women's hockey team had male DNA in doping tests, and in a number of cases, foreign DNA was present in different urine samples from allegedly one athlete. Sometimes positive doping tests were replaced not by pure blanks of the same athletes, but simply by other people's analyzes. “Third-party actions were also carried out with the urine of 21 Sochi Paralympic medalists,” McLaren concluded.
Its commission also concluded that the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory on several occasions during the preliminary testing of doping samples, in some cases, simply concealed positive samples if they could not be replaced. The decision on each such case was made personally by the Deputy Minister of Sports Nagornykh, the report says.
The system has been operating since 2011, the Russians used doping until RUSADA's accreditation was revoked in 2015: at the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, in London in 2012, as well as at the World Championships in Athletics in Moscow in 2013 and at the Universiade in Kazan 2012.
Thomas Bach, who is on friendly terms with Putin and who himself was delighted with the organization of the Games in Sochi, wanted to be absolutely sure of the fault of Russia as a state.
Many sports analysts believe that it was the second part of the McLaren report that made the greatest impression on IOC President Thomas Bach: the document contained evidence of the systemic use of doping in Russia in almost all sports, including the “disappearing samples” method (those same bottles) - the system was very effective and allowed Russian athletes to take doping right during the competition.
“Athletes around the world are guilty of doping, and the United States is ahead of Russia in terms of the number of athletes punished for doping,” states Gilles Carbonneau. “But the problem is something else: only in Russia, at least to date, the use and promotion of doping has functioned as an institutional system.”
2016–2017: Oswald and Schmidt Commissions
* Denis Oswald, former member Presidium of the IOC from Switzerland, 13-time Swiss champion in rowing, after sports career became a lawyer. Samuel Schmid - former Swiss minister, responsible for the army and sports
Thomas Bach, who is on friendly terms with Putin and was himself enthusiastic about the organization of the Sochi Games, wanted to be 100% sure that Russia as a state was to blame. To this end, in July 2016, the IOC decided to create its own commissions led by Denis Oswald and Samuel Schmid* to conduct two independent investigations into the doping scandal. The first rechecked doping tests from the Sochi Games, the second - the involvement of employees of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation in concealing violations of Russian athletes. By the way, literally on the eve of the Lausanne session of the IOC executive committee, the Swiss newspaper TagesAnzeiter was surprised that it was Schmid, who had absolutely no experience in investigating sports fraud, who was entrusted to head the commission - they say, would it not be more practical to resort to the services of professionals. However, on the side of Schmid - an impeccable reputation. The one that Mutko no longer has. And there are already enough pro experts in the Schmid commission.
At the beginning of November 2017 Rodchenkov, who once promised with his revelations to “destroy olympic sport in Russia for the next 5-6 years”, according to the British newspaper The Daily Mail, gave the Oswald and Schmidt commissions new affidavits. As a result of the first published results of the work of the Oswald Commission Russian skiers Evgeny Belov and Alexander Legkov were accused of using illegal drugs and deprived of gold at the Sochi Olympics. They were also banned from further participation in the Olympics. The final crushing blow was dealt to the Sochi Olympics.
TO November 29, 2017 As a result of the doping scandal, Russia lost a total of 13 medals. A number of athletes have been banned from international competition for life.
The price of triumph at the 2014 Olympics turned out to be much higher: a ruined reputation, a humiliated country and a broken fate of a whole generation of Russian athletes
2017, November-December: Before and after Lausanne
November 16, 2017 The board of founders of WADA decided to refuse RUSADA to restore membership. WADA considered two points of the roadmap unfulfilled: Russia did not fully recognize the conclusions of the McLaren Commission on the systemic use of doping in Russia and did not provide access to doping samples sealed by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation as part of an investigation into a criminal case against .... Grigory Rodchenkov.
Meanwhile, in Russia, all the blame for the doping scandal was shifted solely to Rodchenkov, who was charged with two criminal cases. in November 2017, he himself distributed doping among athletes and coaches, and also had access to the database of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory and could change it while already in the United States.
However, this version of the events of three years ago did not convince the IOC. As the reorganization in RUSADA did not convince, including the change of leadership, which even seemed to be positively received by the Olympic officials. Neither the Kremlin's attempts to avoid an aggravation of the situation, nor the various signals sent to the IOC - do not bring Russia to boycott the Olympics (as stated by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov), nor the good personal relations between Putin and Bach could stop that snowball , which began to pick up speed on the slopes of Sochi, and stopped at the approaches to the South Korean Pyeongchang. The triumph at the 2014 Olympics was ensured by the mutual responsibility of liars and schemers in power. The price of this triumph turned out to be too high: a ruined reputation, a humiliated country and a broken fate of a whole generation of Russian athletes.
The economic sanctions were followed by sports sanctions - and at the very moment when Putin's plans, as political scientist Kirill Rogov aptly noted, did not include new round confrontations with the West
But this is not the end yet. After the decision of the IOC, politics will inevitably invade the sport, and quite heavily and perhaps even rudely. Our fellow citizens last years the authorities persistently, using all methods and forms of propaganda, convinced that they live in a regime of a besieged fortress - there are enemies all around, they do not like Russia ... Now, sports sanctions have followed the economic sanctions. And they followed at the very moment when, as political scientist Kirill Rogov aptly noted, Putin's plans did not include a new round of confrontation with the West. It turns out that this confrontation already follows its own logic and the Kremlin is unable to influence it. Therefore, many analysts, remembering after the decision of the IOC in Lausanne that Russia had previously rejected the option of participating in the 2018 Games under neutral flag, ask the question: how will Putin answer?
Most likely, Kirill Rogov ironically on his Facebook, we will be told from tomorrow that Rodchenkov invented everything about the hole in the wall through which the Olympic urine was substituted. Just as before, Litvinenko and the British came up with everything about polonium, and the "dill" with the West - about a Malaysian Boeing shot down by a Russian "beech". Well, and so on.
On the evening of December 5, members of the Russian delegation in Lausanne, after the IOC decision was made public, held a press conference only for Russian journalists. And foreigners were ordered not to let them in. Apparently, as foreign agents.
December 11, 2016, 14:43 
In September 2001, during the competitions of the Goodwill Games, a sample taken from two Russian gymnasts Alina Kabaeva And Irina Chashchina, showed the presence of furosemide, which in itself is not considered doping, but is included in the list of prohibited substances, as it can mask the presence of other drugs. The International Gymnastics Federation suspended them for a period of two years. During the first year, the gymnasts did not have the right to take part in any competitions, the second year of disqualification was given conditionally. Athletes were stripped of all awards from the Goodwill Games and the 2001 World Championship.
Alina Kabaeva
Irina Chashchina
In February 2002, the day before Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, it became known that in the body of a Russian skier Natalia Baranova-Masalkina an elevated erythrocyte count was found. The Russian athlete was suspended from participation in the competition and disqualified for two years.
On the last day of the Olympics, representatives of the International Olympic Committee reported that Russian skiers Larisa Lazutina And Olga Danilova disqualified. Athletes were stripped of all medals won at the Olympics. Olga Danilova lost "gold" and "silver", Larisa Lazutina was deprived of gold and two silver medals.
Larisa Lazutina
In August 2004, the Athens Olympic Games set a record for the most doping bans. There were more than 20 of them. Russians were among the athletes caught doping - weightlifter Albina Khomich and shot putter Irina Korzhanenko, runner Anton Galkin.
Albina Khomich
In February 2006, during the XX winter Olympic Games in Turin, the first doping scandal erupted a few hours before the opening of the Olympics. Russians Natalya Matveeva, Pavel Korostelev and Nikolai Pankratov were suspended from participation in the competition for five days. On the seventh day of the Olympics in Turin, doping tests taken from a Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva, which won the Olympic "silver" in the 15 km race, gave a positive result. She was convicted of using the illegal drug carphedon and was banned for two years. As it became known later, carphedon was part of a therapeutic drug used by a skier to more quickly restore a damaged ankle.
Natalia Matveeva
Nikolai Pankratov
Olga Pyleva
In January 2008, the International Federation rowing(FISA) threatened to disqualify all Russian team. The reason was that during the year seven Russian athletes were caught using doping or violating anti-doping procedures. In 2006 Olga Samulenkova was suspended for two years for exceeding testosterone levels and stripped of her World Championship gold medal. In July 2007, a two-year suspension for intravenous injections received Vladimir Varfolomeev, Denis Moiseev And Svetlana Fedorova. In January 2008, three more athletes were banned for two years - Alexandra Litvincheva, Evgenia Luzyanina And Ivan Podshivalova.
In August 2008, 7 Russian athletes were immediately suspended from participating in all tournaments held under the auspices of the IAAF, including the Olympics, for doping violations - Elena Soboleva(running 800 m and 1500 m), Tatiana Tomashova(1500 m), Yulia Fomenko(1500 m), Gulfiya Khanafeyeva(hammer throwing), Daria Pishchalnikova(discus throw) Svetlana Cherkasova(800 m) and Olga Egorova(1500 m and 5000 m). In addition to Egorova and Cherkasova, everyone else was part of the Russian Olympic team.
Elena Soboleva and Yulia Fomenko in the foreground
Tatiana Tomashova
Daria Pishchalnikova
Svetlana Cherkasova
All data taken up to 2009
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 a large number of biathletes are suspended, 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
Russian national team coach cross-country skiing Markus Kramer expressed bewilderment at the words of the Swede Kalle Halvarsson to the Russian Yevgeny 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 temporary 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. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) found the Russian not guilty.
Belov was temporarily suspended by the FIS from starts, but after the decision CAS suspension was removed.
I don't understand what kind of chart this is.
Okay, I should probably reveal.
Here we have a diagram, presumably it shows what proportion of various phenomena is occupied by certain substances in the sample population, where alcohol is in the lead in an explicit form.
Thus, for the average observer, who especially supports liberal views on legalization, the result on the diagram is almost a “banner” with which he is ready to defend his positions. Indeed, in response to the statement that “drugs are a crime”, you can always say “look, how much crime is from alcohol, and how much is from marijuana! this is a serious study, here, an institute! ”, Done.
Now what I don't understand.
For the list of substances and phenomena, I do not know the general population of the sample, so I do not understand what these numbers mean: 5, 70, 80, are these pieces or%?
Then I don't know the relevance of the sample, who was counted?
Let's say we can imagine a social group " potential consumers substances”, which, for example, include everyone aged 21 years and older, because by law they can consume alcohol, or from 14 years old, because this is usually the “dangerous” age at which illegal use begins, or all women and children are included, from babies to very old people, but is social status taken into account, i.e. are there schoolchildren and students, and housewives, and bank employees, and the homeless? And in what district, city, region was the study carried out, what sector of the economy is developed there? So the study suggests the presence of homeless infants who use cocaine?
As a result, without understanding the quantitative and qualitative indicators, it is impossible to imagine the representativeness of this study.
The subject of the study is substances that are also not clear, let's say alcohol, there is like beer in a bar, where after the 5th mug someone breaks a chair on someone's head, and then goes for 15 days, and there is 20-year-old cognac, which they drink alone sitting in front of fireplace and do not commit any crimes, is such a generalization acceptable ?!
And if you still turn to the diagram, then without regard to the quality of the data, even it contains the answer to the question “do drugs really lead to adverse events”, yes! Is it true that alcohol and cigarettes lead to adverse events more often than "drugs", NO! Just add the result for alcohol and nicotine into one group, and for drugs into another, and you will see that this is a decent difference, while you will see how many "users" give rise to those phenomena, and you will see that among a small number of drug users a large number of phenomena, and among a large number Blueberry consumers in % ratio of phenomena are less. Thus, the number of problems with an increase in the number of drug users will grow exponentially and anti-drug legislation is working to prevent, even if only slightly, these indicators from growing, at the same time leaving alcohol and tobacco to society as an affordable alternative, regulating it with excise taxes.
