Alexey Durnovo: “Putin is against doping”

“The news that has come in over the past ten days has been a real chronicle of hell. Completely unknown until the first days of March, meldonium unexpectedly turned into the most popular medicine in the country.

It was time for its manufacturers not to complain to WADA, but to kiss the heads of the anti-doping agency everywhere for the excellent advertising and PR of the drug. More precisely, of course, it was not WADA that had to be thanked, but domestic sports officials. Meldonium, meanwhile, was turning into a national disaster, and by Friday the name of the drug was known even to those who had never heard the word sport before.”