Abeba Aregawi and Maria Sharapova are two of the 60 who tested positive for meldonium since the substance was banned on 1 January. It tells Anti-Doping Agency WADA for the New York Times.
Many of the cases have not yet been made public because the investigation is ongoing.
– We are not surprised that there will be more positive cases when a new substance to put up on the list, said WADA Director David Howman told the newspaper.
the agent, which is used medically to treat severe heart failure, have no proven performance-enhancing effect the athletes. But it was on the list of banned substances just to WADA saw that many athletes use meldonium to improve performance. It was on a watch list last year.
The Swedish 1500 meter star Aregawi thought it was the vitamins that she ate. The Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has eaten a medicine that contains meldonium many years.
Meldonium or mildronate as it is also called, is a substance to increase perfusion mainly in the cardiac muscle in heart attacks.
the product is manufactured only in Latvia by the company Grindex and is mainly used in health care purposes in Russia and other Eastern Bloc countries.
As doping improves the blood flow and affecting energy metabolism in the body’s organs.
After having been put on the watch list by WADA in 2015, it became unlawful from the beginning of the year in 2016.
It is the substance class S4 and is a so-called unspecified drugs, which means that due punishment, if no mitigating circumstances exist, is four years.
Since it was placed on the WADA list, in addition Aregawi, two biathletes and a professional cyclist tested positive for meldonium.
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