Rodchenkov is to blame again: Fakes of the program "Time" about the case of Kamila Valieva

On the eve of the decision of the sports arbitration court on the admission of the superstar of Russian figure skating, Kamila Valiyeva to the Olympic individual competitions in the Time program, Olga Pautetova’s plot, full of indignation in relation to those who accuse the skater of doping. The author is struggling to find in history with a positive test for the prohibited drug of oddity and inconsistencies. The head of the Russian Olympic Committee Stanislav Pozdnyakov in the plot of Pautetova is surprised:

“In accordance with the international WADA standards for accredited anti -doping laboratories, this result should have been loaded into the system, that is, it should have become known, within 20 days after entering the laboratory. Even if we take 20 days, this is the maximum term, respectively, it turns out that the sample was delivered to the Stockholm laboratory on January 19, and passed on December 25. That is, it was almost a month that she walked somewhere. And the second point. It looks very, very strange that this test was published just after the Russian team won the gold medal in the team of skaters. Therefore, while I am intelligible and clearly and clearly answered all these questions, I will question the transparency of this procedure. ”

Pautova continues:

“In the laboratory, such a delay was explained by coronavirus, they say the next wave, the employees were sick, there were not enough hands. And if the sample itself was selected in Russia, in the area of ​​responsibility of the RUSADA - the domestic anti -doping agency - then the study was already conducted in Sweden. ”

The Insider least of all would like to join the choir of those who accuse Kamil Valiev and the coaching headquarters of Eteri Tutberidze in a dishonest game. We sincerely wish the European Champion success at the Olympics. But even the innocent cannot be protected with the help of untruth.

The answer to the first question of Pozdnyakov was received the next day when the court announced his decision - favorable for Valieva. The delay is to blame not only and not so much the Covid-19 pandemic as the mistake of Rusad’s employees: taking Valieva’s testing at the Russian championship, they sent it to Stockholm, not placing it as a priority, so they considered it in the general line, which was very tightened, since due to the pandemic in the laboratory there were significantly fewer employees than usual.

Rusada made a statement in which he claims :

“The sample of the athlete, selected on December 25, 2021, was taken to the laboratory on time sufficient to perform analysis in standard time frames.

After the expiration of the terms provided for by the international standard, the laboratory was informed by the agency about delay in analyzes and the provision of reporting laboratory due to the next wave of Covid-19, the increase in the incidence among the personnel of the laboratory and quarantine rules. At the same time, in its messages, the laboratory indicated the terms of readiness of analysis results, allowing you to obtain information from the laboratory until the end of January 2022, that is, before the beginning of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Also in January, the laboratory informed that the analysis will be performed in priority, however, the conclusion on the adverse result of the analysis was submitted on February 7, 2022. The disclosure of other details regarding the order of analysis of the athlete test is unacceptable and can lead to a violation of the interests of the parties, primarily a protected person. ”

However, this version does not confirm the suspicions of Pozdnyakov and Pautetova. The fact is that before entering the laboratory, the samples are anonymous . Laboratory employees cannot know with which athlete samples work. In the case of Valieva, information about where the test was available only to Rusad’s staff, which can hardly be suspected of sabotage against the athlete. Regardless of who is guilty of a delay - a laboratory or Russad - this does not give an occasion to suspect "opacity", that is, simply evil intent.

The response to the second claim - the specific date of publication of the test result - was formulated by the journalist Sports.ru Vyacheslav Sambur, and a few days before the release of the plot of Pautetova:

“Yes, it is strange to roll out the result the day after the victorious commandant. Well, when would it be not strange? If you see someone’s insidious interest in this (Americans, IOC, enemies of Russia), then there will always be arguments.

Soon after the Chechen Republic = Cut Valiev from all international starts: Euro, Olympics, World Cup. After the euro = frighten dominance and eliminate the competitor before the Olympics. After the Olympiad = take the medal, especially since Russian athletes have done this many times.

Doping can not have a suitable date - this is always not on time, unexpectedly, painfully. The biathlete Alexander Loginov, after the surrender of a positive test, spoke for a whole season, his test was studied for a year - and then they announced and annulled all the results from the moment of surrender. And it was also shocking and suspicious. "

Another “strangeness” discovered by a pause is that Valiyeva Trimetazidin, who was discovered in the sample, allegedly could not help the skater improve sports results:

“Now about the substance that was found in Valieva’s sample. This is the drug Trimetazidin, a cardioprotector. It is included in the list of forbidden, but, according to coaches, is absolutely useless in figure skating.

“Jumping does not help, turn rotations too,” says Eteri Tutberidze.

In addition, according to media reports, the identified dose is so insignificant that there is no question of systematic intake.

“The drug, the traces of which are discovered, does not affect in any way, I say again, neither on speed, nor on strength, nor on explosion, nor endurance. The drug is purely metabolic. It has been successfully used by our grandmothers in clinics in order to better feel in diseases of the cardiovascular system. And certainly none of the grandmothers showed outstanding results on races behind the trolleybus,” says the director of the Institute of Health, and says the director of the Health Institute, and says the director of the Health Institute and rehabilitology NSU named after Lesgft Denis Olisov. "

The argument about the outstanding results of grandmothers is even awkward to speak seriously. And about what benefit Trimetazidin can bring to the skater, in Sports.ru was told by the doctor of medical sciences, a researcher at the Federal Biological Agency Ildus Akhmetov:

“Trimetazidin is a well -known drug. In particular, Chinese specialists studied it well. It is used in the clinic so that patients with heart diseases survive. It acts well on the heart, it has been proved that the use of this drug increases the survival of patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Of course, in sports he was also tried to apply. The effect turned out to be positive for sports capabilities, otherwise it would not have been among doping preparations.

According to fresh data, taking this drug increases the adaptation of a person to the mid -world and highlands (hypoxia), improves myocardial metabolism.

Trimetasidine increases physical activity tolerance, increases strength, endurance, and also reduces the level of lactic acid and decay products of muscle cells in the blood.

Accordingly, a person gets tired less and is restored faster. Therefore, its use in sports can lead to an improvement in sports results. A person can train more often, recover faster. In general, adaptation will go much better in a person taking this drug.

The active substance can be found not only in the drug itself. It is sometimes added as an admixture in different additives for the sake of the best effect. Therefore, without knowing the exact composition, the athlete can run into this drug.

In microdoses, it can be found in a number of drugs, so athletes need to be very careful so that prohibited substances do not get into the body. ”

However, there are different opinions about the effectiveness of trimetasidine as doping. Dr. Michael Joyner from the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, a specialist in the physiology of high achievements, believes that his use in sports makes no sense. In an interview with NBC, he said :

“I cannot imagine a skater who accepts this substance is a mystery to me. I can’t imagine the script in which he will do it. ”

But the existence of an alternative point of view does not cancel the fact that there are experts who consider trimetasidine effective. There were several cases of punishment of athletes due to its application; The loudest of them is a three -month disqualification of the Chinese swimmer Sun Jan, at that time a two -time Olympic champion, in 2014.

There were no cases in figure skating when trimetasidine was found in the samples, but the Meldonium drug prohibited in sports in March 2016 was found in the sample of the Olympic champion in the team tournament Ekaterina Bobrova. Temporary removal was then removed soon, since the drug is excreted from the body for a long time, and it was prohibited only from the beginning of 2016; They considered that the athlete could accept him even before the ban. It is curious that the doctor who then worked with Bobrova was Philip Swvetsky, who during the 2008 Olympics worked with the rowing team, at once six athletes from which were disqualified for injections of the forbidden drug; He pleaded his guilt. Recently, Shvetsky was a medical consultant in the group of Eteri Tutberidze.

Pautova summarizes:

“The history of Valieva exposed the World Anti -Doping Agency with its dubious toxicology, unreasonable persecution and endless legal tricks. There is not a single convincing evidence that traces of a harmless medicine called trimetazidin Dali Valieva have any advantage, or that she took this substance consciously. ”

There is no evidence, but there is no decision to recognize or non -recognition of the results of Valieva, not to mention its disqualification. Actually, it is precisely on this that the court decision announced on Monday is based on Monday: it would be wrong to remove the athlete from the Olympics in a situation where the violations have not been proven. Nothing indicates “dubious toxicology and unreasonable decisions” in this whole story. Another thing is that there are different opinions about the legitimacy of the premises in the list of prohibited drugs of such harmless agents as trimetasidine, but this is already the most indirect attitude to the Valieva case.

And the cherry on the cake in the plot of the Pautetova:

“If the sample itself was selected in Russia, in the area of ​​responsibility of the RUSADA - the domestic anti -doping agency - then the study was already conducted in Sweden. This is due to the consequences of the fraud of Grigory Rodchenkov. ”

Grigory Rodchenkov, who from 2006 to 2015 headed the anti -doping center, was certainly the organizer of fraud with samples, including their substitutions during the Olympics in Sochi. But in 2016, he left for the United States and began to cooperate with WADA, revealing the mechanism of the state falsification system he developed. After Rodchenkov, WADA in April 2016 deprived the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory of Accreditation. But a month later, it was partially restored in rights and again was given accreditation.

But falsifications in the laboratory continued. In December 2019, WADA published a report on manipulations with electronic data. It was established that the positive doping tests of 145 athletes were hidden, and the system administrator of the laboratory, deleting the files created before the flight, changed the date in the database to create the impression that the files were deleted even under Rodchenkov (but at the same time he was mistaken and set a date from the future). When it was opened, the laboratory accreditation was again recalled. Russian propagandists then tried to say that the Laboratory’s computer system continued to remotely manage Rodchenkov, but it looked extremely unconvincing, which The Insider had already written about.