MOSCOW: Russian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva, who contended at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, has tried positive for the banned substance meldonium.
Sergeeva, who completed sixteenth in the two-man bobsleigh in 2014 with her accomplice, Nadezhda Paleeva, joins no less than 100 different competitors who have recorded positive tests for the medication.
The most noticeable was the tennis star Maria Sharapova, a five-time fabulous hammer champion.
"I am simply stunned about this news since I am sure that I took this medicine just toward the end of a year ago,
entirely under the directions of the specialists from the Federal Medical-Biological Agency and additionally cardiologists," the 28-year-old told the R-Sport news office.
"Obviously, both the specialists who recommended me this substance and I myself were one hundred percent sure that the meldonium would just stay in my framework for a few days and after that by January 1, I would be totally perfect," she included.
Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency's rundown of banned substances on January 1, 2016. From that point forward, 100 competitors have been found to have utilized meldonium, Ben Nichols, WADA's head of correspondences, said on Tuesday.
No less than 11 of them are Russian competitors, including Sharapova, figure skater Ekaterina Bobrova and best on the planet speed-skater Pavel Kulizhnikov. Utilization of meldonium was across the board before its banning. One study demonstrated 490 competitors who contended in a year ago's European Games in Baku had taken it.
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