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In recent days we have found, for pure randomness & agrave ;, a & rsquo; interview with Sergey Tarasov dated February 2015 and never published in the Western media. L & rsquo; former Russian biathlete has spilled the beans to Sport-Express magazine, telling the truth & agrave; about his dramatic experience during the Olympic Games in Albertville in 1992, when risks memorize options to die because of a wrong blood transfusion.
Sunday 8 May 2016 20 minutes reading time
Before examining the affair & egrave; proper to make a brief digression on the career of Tarasov, since & eacute; many fans have only recently approached the biathlon and certainly do not know his profile.
Born in 1965, & egrave; It was a biathlete top over the years & rsquo; 90, living his time & nbsp; improved between 1993 and 1997. During this period, at the individual level, won an Olympic gold and a world championship gold (both in the 20 km, respectively Lillehammer in 1994 and Ruhpolding & nbsp; 1996) in addition to four other personal medals less requested metals and five medals with relay races, including the & rsquo; World gold 1996.
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However, before you get all these successes, & egrave; He became famous & ndash; at least behind the scenes of & rsquo; environment & ndash; for one of the most ugrave & events; disturbing and obscure in the history of the biathlon.
After nearly a l & rsquo; former biathlete quarter century has decided to definitely light on it, confirming its in quest & rsquo; interview, gathering on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday and translated for us from & rsquo; friend Valeria Maslova, as the worst allegations about his misadventure were all founded.
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The story of how the 1992 Olympics you're almost dead & egrave; tutt & rsquo; now shrouded in mystery. & Ldquo; & Egrave; It happened between 6 and 7 February. After what happened I consider it my second birthday, they did an experiment on me & rdquo;. & Nbsp;
With blood doping? & Ldquo; S & igrave; & rdquo ;.
How function as memorize options ;? & Ldquo; The blood was collected during the & rsquo; summer, at the peak of fitness. Was enriched with vitamins, she puts it in the freezer and stored until winter competitions. After which & eacute ;, at the appropriate time, it was brought back to room temperature and re-injected into the body. That I know of so far in biathlon no one had ever used this practice, but in 1991- & lsquo; 92 decided to try. The blood was taken to four people during a training camp in Minsk, but when you tratt memorize options to take it Albertville it took days and was not transported in a refrigerator case, bens & igrave; in a normal suitcase & rdquo ;.
But cos & igrave; sar & agrave; surely gone bad & hellip; & Ldquo; Sure and memorize options bad! After l & rsquo; accident I told the doctors about this and they had their eyes out of their sockets, said it was impossible had been transported in that way & rdquo ;.
The rumors about you say that actually & agrave; you & egrave; was injected into the blood of another blood type is not compatible with your. & Ldquo; Even this can not memorize options exclude. There & rsquo; were labels on the bags. I saw this and asked reassurance to the team doctor. He replied that there n & rsquo; it was needed, he remembered who they were bags & rdquo ;.
The doctor was Aleksey Kuznetsov? & Ldquo; Exactly. He had to understand at once that that blood was unusable! He had to tell the coaches that you could not inject any circumstances. They were not doctors and had no knowledge on the subject & rdquo;. & Nbsp;
As things turned out? & Ldquo; I was the first to undergo the treatment. We had lunch, and then they told me to enter a room. I noticed that the doctor was shaking like a leaf. Even I told him & lsquo; Quiet! Perch & eacute; six cos & igrave; agitated? & rsquo ;. Perhaps he had already & agrave; some suspicion & rdquo ;.
Then what & egrave; happened? & Ldquo; The transfusion lasted longer & ugrave; or less of 10 minutes with no problems and my heart rhythm was normal for my standards, 35 beats per minute. To memorize options all & rsquo; sudden salt memorize options 200. I felt as if my heart was going to explode. Immediately stopped the transfusion, but the damage was done & rdquo ;.
You lose consciousness? & Ldquo; In moments. I fainted and came round. I was fogged, I saw the doctor who was trying to make me a & rsquo; injection and could not. We started the transfusion to & rsquo; lunch time, but when you are determined to call for help was gi & agrave; dark. My last memory & egrave; Vladimir Smirnov's face while they were charging me on & rsquo; ambulance & rdquo ;. You were dying? & Ldquo; S & igrave ;, and are sure you have saved someone's life & rdquo; .
What do you mean? & Ldquo; Someone else in my place would have died, theoretically I should not have and I will never survive. When I started to recover I was a clinical case, all of French doctors & rsquo; hospital came to visit me. For four days and four nights the monitor showed 160 beats per minute. What heart hold up? I was lucky, mine was highly trained. I remember telling all my fear. The blood was infected, you had to empty myself completely. They injected me with a drug to allow the bone marrow to start producing red blood cells. Meanwhile I lost my hair and nails. Her arms and legs were deteriorating. I also had a & rsquo; experience-death & rdquo ;. & Nbsp;
C & rsquo; it was a tunnel? & Ldquo; No. C & rsquo; it was a light, very strong. I really think that he was poised with the & rsquo; to the & agrave ;. All & rsquo; suddenly I heard my daughter's voice. & Lsquo; & agrave Pap ;! Pap & agrave;! & Rsquo ;. After these words I could not die, I brought back to life. For me Katia & egrave; the person pi & ugrave; important of my life & rdquo ;.
Where was his daughter at the time? & Ldquo; In Novosibirsk, with his mother. When I regained consciousness I was asked if I wanted my wife to come and Albertville. I said no, I did not want to scare her. I had lost more & ugrave; 10 pounds, the wind made me swing. In the true sense of the word. On the fifth day, when I started to feel a bit & rsquo; rather, they took me out for a breath d & rsquo; air. They had to support the arms and when I inhaled, l & rsquo; nurse manning barely me & rdquo ;.
Kuznetsov The doctor came to visit? & Ldquo; Certainly. Even the coaches and athletes. I remember a visit of Anatoly and Evgeny Zhdanovic Redkin. Anatoly tried to cheer me up, joked, made jokes. Redkin instead was very young and after greeting me he no longer & ugrave; open mouth. Later he recounted & lsquo; You were in such a state that I when I saw you I was paralyzed from & rsquo; horror and I lost the word & rsquo; & rdquo ;.
Kuznetsov & egrave; apologized? & Ldquo; There were no excuses, but initially I did not even feel resentment. Only later I realized what was going on. Now l & rsquo; I have forgiven, we have normal relations. Nobody wanted to kill me. & Egrave; my fault, because & eacute; I agreed to & rsquo; experiment & rdquo ;.
& Egrave; true that someone & rsquo; other team & egrave; He was involved in this tragedy of Albertville, but with less serious consequences? & Ldquo; No, to Albertville stopped on me. Russia said on TV that I was dead. Thank God my wife and my mom does not l & rsquo; have heard. After half an & rsquo; now & egrave; came the denial: & lsquo; Excuse me, & egrave; still alive. & rdquo;
How long did you stay in the hospital? & Ldquo; Until February 23, the last day of the Olympics. Unexpectedly for all I was not dead, but did not allow me even to finish the treatments, n & eacute; cashing l & rsquo; insurance. They have prepared in a hurry to make me leave with the rest of the delegation. They were afraid for me to say what had happened & rdquo ;.
What & egrave; was the official version? & Ldquo; poisoning from mushrooms brought from home! I stand on my feet barely, French doctors said I would have to stay in hospital for at least six weeks. Instead our leaders have dragged me away & rdquo;. & Nbsp;
What & rsquo; & egrave; happened to your back? & Ldquo; All & rsquo; & egrave airport; My wife came to get me. When you saw me you & egrave; started crying. I was unrecognizable. Then, for a month, we had to constantly call the & rsquo; & ugrave ambulance even more; times a day. I had sudden changes in pressure. Now all & rsquo; hospital we were joking about: & ldquo; What do we send back and forth l & rsquo; ambulance? Let it be fixed under the windows of Tarasov & rdquo ;. After some time you & egrave; presented a new problem, l & rsquo; arrhythmia. A terrible thing. I began to be afraid to fall asleep. I & lsquo; And if the heart suddenly stops during sleep? & Rsquo; & rdquo;
None l & rsquo; helped, especially in the sports world? & Ldquo; They are all gone to & rsquo; instant. No one was interested in what was happening to me. A few weeks later, just in Novosibirsk, c & rsquo; it was a stage of the World Cup. Nobody & egrave; remembered me, no one & egrave; He came to see me. In sport & egrave; a common history. C & rsquo; & egrave; need you finch & eacute; produce results. Otherwise, they cancel. In pi & ugrave period; difficult were close to me only my family and my personal coach, Aleksandr Nikiforov. And once he named Aleksander Tikhonov me. It proposed to file charges & rdquo ;.
She refused? & Ldquo; S & igrave ;, I said that would be the end of my career because & eacute; I would be forever closed the doors of the national team. Tikhonov get angry memorize options ;: & lsquo; But as a national?! & Rsquo; & Ndash; He said & ndash; & Lsquo; You do not have pi & ugrave; no possibility & agrave; the same! Cos & igrave; at least you take a ton of rubles. I guarantee that we will win the cause & rsquo ;. He wanted to exploit the situation to its advantage, but acting with my hands. Him now & nbsp; He was out of favor in the Russian biathlon. If l & rsquo; & egrave; tied to the finger, he does not like it when someone does not & egrave; d & rsquo; agreed with him or not humor him. The Olympic Games in Lillehammer not & egrave; even congratulated me for the victory & rdquo ;.
In fact & egrave; amazing how & egrave; next. Not only have you taken, but you also won the & rsquo; Olympic gold! & Ldquo; Our doctors kept telling me that I needed to complete rest, but cos & igrave; doing I felt worse. So I decided to get in touch with the French doctors. On the contrary, they have advised me to move the pi & ugrave; because & eacute; my heart had grown accustomed to the efforts. I started slowly to train and I improved to d & rsquo; visibly. L & rsquo; only thing & egrave; that & rsquo; arrhythmia I & egrave; never passed & rdquo ;.
I wanted to immediately return all & rsquo; activity & agrave; competitive? & Ldquo; S & igrave ;, in September I asked her to return to the national team, which in the meantime had changed the coaching staff. Anatoly had arrived Khovantsev and Valeriy Polhovskiy. All & rsquo; beginning they said, & lsquo; What we need a dead? & Rsquo ;. The end to memorize options I was told that if I had arrived in December in the first three of & rsquo; & ldquo; Izhevsk Rifle & rdquo; I would be able to return. It seemed an impossible condition, also because & eacute; in November I did a race in Russia in Novosibirsk Cup. I arrived at the finish line practically crawling, I had become all green. Vadim Melikhov, looking at me, said: & lsquo; Tarasov not sar & agrave; never again & ugrave; what it once & rsquo; & rdquo ;.
Cruel. & Ldquo; S & igrave ;, but I knew of his words only pi & ugrave; a year later, when I became Olympic champion in Lillehammer. Melikhov came in person to dirmele and added & lsquo; Sergey Forgive me, I did not think I could go & rsquo ;. But let's face it, no one did not believe it & rdquo ;.
You never pi & ugrave; tried doping? & Ldquo; I & egrave; enough for only one attempt! All my medals are clean. Sometimes I think that maybe things have gone in the best way. Albertville If I had not had this lesson cos & igrave; hard, I would have made use of doping in the rest of my career & rdquo ;.
 Translation of Valeria Maslova.
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