Abeba Aregawi positive for Meldonium, A&B

[aaronk]

According to reports, Abeba Aregawi has tested positive in a drug test.
Awaiting the B sample results.

There are many people tweeting about it, including several women who would benefit if Aregawi were to be banned!

I hesitated in posting this, but I'm certain this is a legit report!

ADD: There's an article on the front page about this!

[Dave]

Why was this made public without a B sample?

[booond]

Why was this made public without a B sample?

Possibly because they had to announce why she was suspended.

[aaronk]

Annimarie Korte has tweeted that Swedish newspapers said the test was made in Ethiopia in January, and the substance is Meldonium.
She also says that Meldonium only became a banning substance on January 1 of this year!

ADD: Korte just tweeted---
Meldonium pills can be simply bought anywhere online--even on Amazon. 40 pills cost 20 Euros, so quite cheap way to dope.
Unquote.

[tandfman]

The Associated Press is now reporting that 9 Ethiopian runners are currently being investigated. Story linked on front page.

[1runner1]

if B positive...ban them all for like...enough of this crap

[1runner1]

how about Rio without Russians, Kenyans or Ethiopians? If nine Ethiopians test postive kick all of them out.

[Dave]

It will be a very different set of results with those countries missing.

[americantrackfan]

the whole t&f world has been like a house of cards for the last few months, just one after another. I think if we can get find ourselves Jamaican and American doping scandals that will be every major country with a scandal since december. None of this is surprising, i mean we all know that most top athletes are doped to the gills, we just try to pretend that what we see is real most of the time.

[DentyCracker]

Meldonium is similar in mechanism of action to trimetazidine aka Vastarel MR, an anti-ischaemic agent used to increase blood flow to the coronary arteries. I am figuring it helps an athlete to recover faster. I have patients on this medication, these are not people considering to run track, not by a long shot.

[player]

Meldonium has been shown to improve endurance performance as well as recovery after exercise.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1....1788/abstract

Not advised for pregnant women from what I gather. The wisdom of the entire drug prohibition regime can be questioned but, within that regime, adding Meldonium to list of banned drugs seems logically supported.

[Pakilo]

Meldonium is similar in mechanism of action to trimetazidine aka Vastarel MR, an anti-ischaemic agent used to increase blood flow to the coronary arteries. I am figuring it helps an athlete to recover faster. I have patients on this medication, these are not people considering to run track, not by a long shot.

Vdovina Ryzhova was given 9 months for trimetazidine in a very similar situation- right after it was added to forbidden list. It will be interesting to see the punishment in this case.

[Pego]

Meldonium is similar in mechanism of action to trimetazidine aka Vastarel MR, an anti-ischaemic agent used to increase blood flow to the coronary arteries. I am figuring it helps an athlete to recover faster. I have patients on this medication, these are not people considering to run track, not by a long shot.

I had to look it up. It apparently "improves exercise tolerance in angina pectoris patients." Does that mean that it does the same in normal cardiac vasculature? I am most skeptical.

[mump boy]

Am i supposed to be outraged that someone failed a test for something that was only added to banned list 2 weeks before ?

She may have been unaware that it was now banned (which is no legal excuse but very possible). She may have taken it 2 weeks previously and it was still in her system

I can't get bothered about this one i'm afraid

[NotDutra5]

Am i supposed to be outraged that someone failed a test for something that was only added to banned list 2 weeks before?

Why would anyone be outraged that someone failed a test for any substance?