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If meldonium does not affect performance, then why are all these people taking it? Does it taste good?
 
Do they even have enough time to find a new group of Russian players, drug test them to make sure they test negative, and get them over here before the tournament starts. I personally know nothing of the drug, after little research I found it kind of sounds like the effects are that of a much lower form of blood doping? Is that wrong? Honestly have no idea. But also saw that Maria Sharapova tested positive for the same thing earlier this year.
 
Rubtsov will probably drop a lot in the draft. I had him as my 5th best prospect in the upcoming draft, now I think its questionable whether he should be drafted in the first round. I suspect a lot of these kids will drop very far in the draft.
 
KingJoffrey said:
This just show how badly Wada can handle things. They ban a medicine which is fine, but they don't bother to study how long it stays in athlete's body. There is over 200 positive results after Jan 1. [mod].
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Did WADA do enough to spread awareness of meldonium's ban?
 
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OK, so let me get this straight.

Their entire team used an obscure Latvian drug, some of the coaches in the Russian national hockey programme are actually Latvian, AND the Russians have to face the Latvian junior team in the round robin?

It's all a Latvian conspiracy, I tell you! :laugh:
 
Steamwhistle said:
According to the Wikipedia article, a large majority of reported incidents involve Russian athletes, including water polo, cycling, judo etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium

Why is it so popular among Russians but not other European countries? Very strange in my opinion.
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It is popular in other European countries. Russia is just the biggest and most highly populated of them. The drug is Latvian-made.
 
Steamwhistle said:
Why is it so popular among Russians but not other European countries? Very strange in my opinion.
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It is very popular in the Baltic countries and a few other places, where the drug is exported to. It's probably even more popular in Latvia (where it was invented and is being manufactured) than Russia, but at least everyone here in Latvia is aware that the substance was banned by WADA.

Must be a communication issue with the Russians. Most of the info coming from WADA is in English, maybe that's the culprit?
 
Steamwhistle said:
According to the Wikipedia article, a large majority of reported incidents involve Russian athletes, including water polo, cycling, judo etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium

Why is it so popular among Russians but not other European countries? Very strange in my opinion.
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I think it is like a cultural thing, sort of like Indian people believe in homeopathy. I believe that in long term WADA is making all Russian athletes a favor. They will learn that this placebo drug is useless.
 
Bottom line is zero evidence on the performance enhancement front. Bottom line. It is on WADA list now for one reason or another, move on. Good experiment when 16 yo will play against mainly 17 yo.
 
aka Ude said:
Russians, what else can you say. They've got caught nearly in every sport I can think of just in a few months. Can't play by the rules can you?
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Do you believe that they continued using that drug after Jan 1 or not?
 
vanskillZ said:
If meldonium does not affect performance, then why are all these people taking it? Does it taste good?
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It does affect performance indirectly. It helps with increased workloads, especially during the off-season when you're building up your stamina. It's not like a human growth hormone that increases your muscle mass and makes you stronger or anything, it's just one of many supplements and substances athletes use in the training process. There aren't any major side-effects, it's not in any way harmful, and it's really a stupid thing to be banned over.

It's just that it hasn't gone through the FDA trials, so most US-based experts don't know a single thing about it. It's all assumptions based on assumptions.

Here's a video explaining how it works:
 
Yeah, I don't think that without meldonium russian athletes will perform worse, they can survive without it perfectly. The only problem nobody knows how long it takes to clear your body of it. Apparently WADA didn't know it either. So I agree that our coaches and sports doctors were really reckless but if period of clearing out is really long, like 1 year, then August 2015 was pretty late for such announcement.
Since this so-called drug is mostly used by russian athletes and it was banned 6 months before Olympics without proper research by WADA no wonder that a lot of people in Russia see this situation as another conspiracy against Russia shortly before a big sports event.
 
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