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Slowly, but surely, "Meldonium contagion" is shifting more and more & ugrave; to the west, leaving the context of the cultural Russian and East European nations dell''area. & Egrave; It arrived in fact the first Norwegian case.
Thursday 7 April 2016 5 minutes reading time
The 'athlete in question & egrave; Ruth Kasirye, weightlifter of 33 years born in Uganda but resident in Norway since 1998 and bearer of the Scandinavian country at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008.
Kasirye said the positivity & agrave; & Egrave; daughter what happened between December and January. Back in Uganda to celebrate Christmas with his family, & egrave; It has been hit by malaria.
During the treatment the drug was administered containing the active ingredient indicted, put on the list of banned substances as dall''1 January 2016. The 'athlete explained that he had taken the same drug in the past without problems (for obvious reasons the Meldonium was legal at the time, author's note).
The case of Kasirye, 3 medals at the European, brings to 37 the number of positivity & agrave; notes to Meldonium, although it is rumored that there is a hundred & nbsp; not yet in the public domain.
Especially this incident brings in Norway in the "club" of countries with at least one case. This is the ninth country to join the list, the first to memorize options Western fully, as a founding country of NATO.
Below is listed the updated list of positivity & agrave; overt:
ATHLETE
NAT
SPORT
Andrei RYBAKOU & nbsp;
BLR
Weightlifting
Gabriela Petrova & nbsp;
BUL
Athletics
Endeshaw Negesse & nbsp;
ETH
Athletics
Davit Modzmanashvili & nbsp;
GEO
fight
Ruth Kasirye & nbsp;
NOR
Weightlifting
Maria Sharapova & nbsp;
RUS
Tennis & nbsp;
Semion Elistratov & nbsp;
RUS
Short Track
Pavel Kulizhnikov & nbsp;
RUS
Speed ​​skating & nbsp;
Alexander Markin & nbsp;
RUS
Volleyball
Eduard Vorganov & nbsp;
RUS
Cycling
Ekaterina Bobrova & nbsp;
RUS
Figure skating
Eduard Latypov & nbsp;
RUS
Biathlon & nbsp;
Konstantinova Jekaterina & nbsp;
RUS
Short Track
Alexey Mikhaltsov & nbsp;
RUS
Rugby 7
Alena Mikhaltsova & nbsp;
RUS
Rugby 7
Yuliya Yefimova & nbsp;
RUS
Swimming
Nadezhda Sergeeva & nbsp;
RUS
bobsleigh
Nadezhda Kotlyarova & nbsp;
RUS
Athletics
Andrey Minzhulin & nbsp;
RUS
Athletics
Gulshat Fazletdinova & nbsp;
RUS
Athletics
Olga Vovk & nbsp;
RUS
Athletics
Sergei Semenov & nbsp;
RUS
fight
Evgeny Saleev & nbsp;
RUS
fight
Anastasia Chulkova & nbsp;
RUS
Cycling
Pavel Yakushevsky & nbsp;
RUS
Cycling
Alexey Bugaychuk & nbsp;
RUS
Water polo
Pavel Kulikov & nbsp;
RUS
Skeleton & nbsp;
Nikolai Kuksenkov & nbsp;
RUS
Artistic Gymnastics
Denis Yartsev & nbsp;
RUS
Judo & nbsp;
Mikhail Pulyaev & nbsp;
RUS
Judo & nbsp;
Natalia Kondratieva & nbsp;
RUS
Judo & nbsp;
Yekaterina Valkova & nbsp;
RUS
Judo & nbsp;
Istv & aacute; n L & eacute; go & nbsp;
SVK
fight
Abeba Aregawi & nbsp;
SWE
Athletics
Olga Abramova & nbsp;
UKR
Biathlon & nbsp;
Artem Tyshchenko & nbsp;
UKR
Biathlon & nbsp;
Nataliia Lupu & nbsp;
UKR
Athletics
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