Thursday, 10 March 2016

Swedes pledge to clean up as Aregawi’s B test proves positive

STOCKHOLM: The Swedish Athletics Federation is considering a few measures to tidy up the game after it developed that runner Abeba Aregawi's B test had tried positive for meldonium. 

The B test affirmed the vicinity of the execution upgrading substance, which prompted the late go wrong of tennis star Maria Sharapova, the league declared here at a news meeting. 

"We have to guarantee that no dynamic competitor is taking something which is not OK," Sweden's olympic style events group administrator Karin Torneklint said. 

"We have to teach them and guarantee that everybody has something like an 'against doping driving permit'," he included. 

The alliance was educated of the positive test for meldonium, which was on WADA's watch list in 2015 and added to the rundown of banned substances from January 1, after a month. 

"I have already been given tablets by a specialist in Ethiopia which I believed were vitamins. 

It's my own deficiency that I took these tablets without checking," she told the alliance in an announcement. 

At the point when the consequence of the positive test got to be known, the competitor asked that her B test likewise tried, and the Swedish organization affirmed that hints of meldonium were found in it. 

"Before one begins in a worldwide group, they ought to have the capacity to answer various inquiries. The individual ought to realize what they are taking," Torneklint said.

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