La Times: Chepalova used pregnancy as doping

At the 2006 Olympiad, athletes have the opportunity to use dubious ways to achieve the best sports results, the American newspaper Los Angeles Times (full text on the website inopressa.ru ) notes.

During the Winter Olympiad in Salt Lake City in 2002, the Russian ski-lover Julia Chepalova was pregnant. One of the Russian news agencies perceived this as good news, writing two months after the Olympics that the pregnancy of Chepalova became "the most interesting news of social life in the world of sports."

However, doctors have long known that pregnancy can significantly improve sports results. The fact is that during pregnancy in the blood, the content of red blood cells that carry oxygen increases, which significantly improves the endurance of the body. Chepalova, who was then not accused of any violations, won three medals at the Olympics in 2002: bronze - in team competitions on the highway 15 km free style, silver - in team competitions on the highway 10 km classic style and gold - in individual sprint.

Now, when the 2006 Olympics enters its sixth day, athletes have the opportunity to use a variety of means to improve their results. After the high -profile doping scandals of past years and the adoption of the International Anti -Doping Code, sports and government officials try to prevent athletes using illegal ways to achieve the best results.

Athletes use all the means that human imagination tells them. They turn to the healers, use special diets, like the Indonesian runner of Ruviyati, who was sitting on the "muscle vegetarian" diet and later attributed her victory at the marathon distance. Sports journals and Internet sites describe such methods of increasing sports results as "eating bee pollen" and the "doping-abortion" system.

Sometimes an athlete is placed to sleep in a baroacamer to improve his endurance. Not to mention the injections of all kinds of drugs to improve body functions. For example, in order to improve the properties of the knee joint, the athlete is injured into the knee area, introducing a substance that is present in the solution for rinsing the mouth.