“For football fans this is a new story, for sports fans it is far from new. Meldonium is a miraculous potion that turns athletes into mega-champions, it was considered in Russia at the beginning of the zero years. It was meldonium that was found in Sharapova and, in fact, in all the prize-winners and champions of the Olympics in Sochi, it was around meldonium that all the schemes of changing doping tests in Sochi 2014 were built, about which more than 1 film was shot.
Meldonium is a drug widely used in Russia and Ukraine. Almost 95% of cases of meldonium doping attempts are here, in Eastern Europe. Moreover, 80% are from Russia, 15% from Ukraine, since we have, of course, a lot of followers of the “Soviet” school, and even more coaches who have connections, so our athletes doped no less than Russians.
I will not argue about the benefits or otherwise of meldonium. The fact that he was eaten by the whole of Russia and won something in skiing does not prove much. But the fact that any detection of meldonium is Russia or Ukraine is indisputable here.
Meldonium cannot enter the body with food, Meldonium cannot enter the body accidentally. Meldonium is almost impossible to find in Britain. We are waiting for the B sample and the investigation, but meldonium is a piece of shit. I don’t know what was in the mind of the person who gave Mudryk meldonium, but if it is meldonium, then the ban should be for stupidity, not just for doping.”
Source: sport.ua