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"Tennis players are under a rigid drug test, besides in this look sports there is no big sense to apply a dope. If to speak about a meldoniya. As all it is recognized that it not a dope, and recovery means. NHL in general told the players that the meldony — it not a dope, and allowed athletes it to use. So we hope that Sharapova Maria will return to the fastest time for court", – Medvedev Alexander told.
Since January 1, 2016 of meldoniya (mildronat) included in the list of the forbidden preparations. Change in the register was not noticed by many professional athletes therefore scandal was played. Doping tests did not pass about 100 athletes, including 40 Russian.
On the use mildronata got the biathlonist Latypov Edouard, the bicycle racer Vorganov Edouard, the figure skater Ekaterina Bobrova, the tennis-player Sharapova Maria, the skater Pawel Aleksandrovich Kulizhnikov, short-trekisty Semyon Yelistratov and Konstantinova Catherina, the volleyball player Markin Alexander and others.
Mildronat apply in sports to increase of endurance of an organism to high physical and psychological activities during trainings and competitions. In the countries Commonwealth of Independent States the preparation is used for prevention of heart diseases.