Last Tuesday, Chelsea star Mykhailo Mudryk, 23, failed a doping test and faces a four-year ban. The substance with which the alarm went off would have been meldonium, also known as mildronate, and now he will have to wait for the second test that is sealed to find out what will happen next. A case that, as on other occasions, we will have to try to find out how he had contact with meldonium, since there have been other athletes in this situation who were able to avoid subsequent sanctions.
Yastremska claimed that it was the fault of sex
One of the most recent cases is that of the Ukrainian tennis player who found herself in a similar situation in 2021. Dayana Yastremska was accused of using prohibited substances since metabolites of mesterolone were detected. From January to June she was suspended from the main competitions and it was then that the explanations returned her to the tennis court.
Yastremska blamed everything on her boyfriend. At the time she was forced to pass a doping test, she claimed to have had sexual relations with her partner and it turned out that the drug was consumed by the Ukrainian woman’s boyfriend without her knowledge. The testimonies of both coincided and the Ukrainian also passed a polygraph test, which confirmed with a probability of more than 99% that the tennis player had never doped.
The sabotage of a beer
One of the most curious stories concerns former Canadian athlete Ben Johnson in his goal to surpass the ‘son of the wind’ Carl Lewis at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. There, during the relevant anti-doping controls, those in charge already began to suspect the Canadian when seeing him with yellow eyes, something that usually indicates steroid use.
The most striking aspect of this case lies in the defense of the Olympic athlete, who after admitting years later that he doped regularly, assured that André Jackson, a friend of his rival Lewis, confessed to having put the substance in the beer. Johnson has recorded these incriminating statements, but he doesn’t know where.
Agassi’s soda
One of the most recent cases that impacted the world of tennis in terms of doping was that of the American André Agassi, who claimed to have consumed recreational drugs and hid it from the ATP after having registered a positive result for drug use. methamphetamines in an anti-doping control.
The one who was number one in the world stated in his book that it was his assistant, named Slim, who introduced him to the consumption of narcotics and who in the end would be the ‘culprit’ of Agassi’s positive test since according to him “Slim a “Sometimes he mixed drugs with soft drinks,” taking one of them by mistake, which was the excuse he sold to the ATP in a letter that turned out to be false.
Clenbuterol transfusion
This case had as its main protagonist Alberto Contador, who tested positive for Clenbuterol in one of the tests carried out during the 2010 Tour de France. It ended with Pinto being provisionally suspended and dispossessed of the French round that same year. won.
The amount of substance that was detected in Contador’s urine was 50 picograms (400 times less than what would be detected in a laboratory) and this was confirmed by a counteranalysis to what the Madrid cyclist stated was due to an “autotransfusion.” ” that took place during the course of the Tour.
The lubricant was to blame
Another great example of blaming your partner for everything occurred in 2007. Marco Borriello claimed that his girlfriend forced him to use a lubricant that contained cortisone. Then Marco took a doping test and the result of that test almost ended his career. The Federation met with the Italian and partially acquitted him, reducing the disqualification to just 3 months.
