Under the gun or what Russian biathletes should prepare for after the McLaren list is handed over to the IBU. McLaren got to the biathletes Which biathletes made the list
This list of organizations was provided by the head of the independent commission WADA Richard McLaren after the publication of the second part of the report on doping in Russian sports. The IBU has created a working group on the McLaren report, the first meeting of which is scheduled for December 22.
Before this season, the expanded composition of the Russian adult national team included only 42 athletes. There are 25 people in the constant rotation of national teams in the World Cup and IBU Cup.
What is known?
At the moment, it is known that the “McLaren list” includes both active and retired athletes, as well as biathletes who have never competed for Russia in international tournaments.
It is already possible to predict some of the names from the list McLaren: Between 2011 and 2015, at least ten Russian biathletes were disqualified for anti-doping rule violations, under investigation by the WADA commission.
The following athletes were disqualified: Sergey Morzhanov(in 2012); Denis Vdovin, Nikita Marchenkov, Ivan Nyunyaev, Irina Starykh And Ekaterina Yurieva(all in 2013); Valentin Pekhterev, Andrey Dubasov, Vyacheslav Baranunkin And Alexander Loginov(all in 2014).
All of the athletes listed have either already served or continue to serve their sentences.
What will happen next?
President of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Anders Besseberg reported that the meeting of the organization's expert anti-doping commission will be held next Thursday, December 22.
It is not yet clear whether sanctions will threaten the March stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Tyumen and the February World Youth and Junior Championships, which are scheduled for Ostrov in the Pskov region.
According to Besseberg, The IBU has no desire to cancel the stage, but the final fate of the tournament will be known on December 22.
IBU President Anders Besseberg did not deny that individual Russian biathletes could be disqualified, but rejected the possibility that the entire Russian biathlon team could be suspended from participation in the World Cup, and the membership of the Russian Biathlon Union in the IBU would be suspended.
The IBU President also refused to answer the question whether the lists received by his federation included the names of those Russian athletes who came to Nove Mesto to participate in the next stage of the Biathlon World Cup.
Besseberg stressed that the decision on the 2021 World Championships in Tyumen could be made at the organization’s congress next year.
After the publication of the second part of the report McLaren, The IBU received a request from WADA to explain the reason for choosing Tyumen as the host region.
Russian reaction
Representatives of the Russian Biathlon Union are trying to put on a good face and hope for a successful resolution of the situation.
Some functionaries preferred to act on the principle “if I close my eyes, all the bad things will disappear.”
A new doping scandal is breaking out in domestic sports. The World Doping Agency has identified more than 30 Russian biathletes who are suspected of using prohibited medications. What is known about this case at the moment and what is the reaction to this news of Russian and foreign athletes and functionaries - in the RBC material
Dmitry Malyshko (Russia) during the men's sprint race at the third stage of the Biathlon World Cup 2016/17 season in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic (Photo: Alexey Filippov/RIA Novosti)
What is known so far
- On December 15, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) received from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) a list of names of 31 Russian biathletes suspected of doping.
- The list was compiled based on the results of an investigation by McLaren’s independent commission, so we can talk about athletes who used doping in the period from 2011 to 2015.
- IBU President Anders Besseberg said that there are three groups of athletes on the list: active athletes; those who have already completed their careers; and those who are not listed in the IBU database. In the latter case, we are talking about athletes who compete only in domestic Russian competitions.
- The names of the athletes convicted of doping will not be revealed until a decision is made on each of them.
- The IBU announced the creation of a special working group, which included lawyers and experts in the anti-doping field. It has already held its first meeting, at which it reviewed information about current Russian biathletes mentioned in McLaren’s report. The group will report to the IBU on the information found and propose disciplinary action at a meeting on December 22.
- A decision on the doping cases of 31 Russian athletes may be made before the start of the World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria, which will be held from February 8 to 19, 2017. According to some reports, this could happen before the New Year.
- The holding of the Biathlon World Championships in Tyumen in 2021 is under threat; a decision on it may be made at the IBU congress next year.
Athletes' reaction
Currently, the Russian team is at the third stage of the World Cup in the Czech Nove Mesto, it will end on December 18. The current season, compared to the previous one, is not so bad for the Russian team: our athletes won six medals (one gold, three silver and two bronze). The Norwegian team had the same result; only the French and Germans showed the best results.
Russian athletes who took 2nd place in the men's relay at the second stage of the Biathlon World Cup 2016/17 season in Pokljuka, Slovenia. From left to right: Maxim Tsvetkov, Anton Shipulin, Anton Babikov, Matvey Eliseev (Photo: Andrey Anosov/SBR/RIA Novosti)
The document contains the names of approximately 40 athletes, NeveItalia reports. The results of their doping tests are attached. A separate column indicates which substance was detected in the analysis of a particular athlete.
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It is noteworthy that the document allegedly contains a comment by the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, who is accused of drugging athletes. For example, the banned drug trimetazidine was found in the urine of two-time European Championships medalist Timofey Lapshin, and Rodchenkov’s note is next to it - “reason for investigation.” Note that one of the authors of the table called the athlete an “untouchable teapot.”
At the same time, Rodchenkov reacted much more emotionally to the discovery of such prohibited substances as methenolone, oxandrolone and trenbolone in the tests of Russian master of sports Ekaterina Glazyrina. “We need to hide it immediately,” the former head of the laboratory allegedly wrote, accompanying his words with obscene language. In “additional information,” the unknown person stated that “this is somehow too much and such samples should not be sent to the laboratory.”
Let us note that the document contains not only the names of biathletes suspected of doping. For example, the bronze medalist of the 2010 Olympic Games Anton Shipulin is also on the list, but there are no notes on the fact of taking prohibited substances next to his name.
Let us remind you that the national teams of Norway, Great Britain and the Czech Republic are going to boycott the World Cup stage in Tyumen due to the use of prohibited drugs by Russian biathletes. They insist on the disqualification of these athletes and the “cleaning up” of doping procedures.
Today there will be a meeting of the IBU Executive Committee, at which the working group should provide recommendations, or rather a reaction, to the second part of McLaren’s report. The Russian biathlon community and the entire multi-million army of fans are waiting tensely - what will happen?
What names? What are the facts? What, in general and in particular, are the claims “against us” and what will be the final punishment for “Russia”. At least, this is exactly how it was presented in the Russian press and in the comments of various sports officials after the announcement of the McLaren Show put-to.
This is not the first time that doping stories in biathlon have surfaced on the eve of the main starts of the season - the World Championships and the Olympic Games. This tradition is already more than 10 years old. And our “biathlon power” broke all records there.
Shall we go for a run? For the good of the matter...
January 2003
At the World Cup stage in Anterselva Albina Akhatova passed a positive doping test for niketamide. However, instead of the athlete, they punished the team doctor, who allegedly gave Akhatova an unauthorized injection. Akhatova will be disqualified later - in 2009, at the World Championships.
February 2006
…Olga Pyleva (Medvedtseva) was caught using carphedon during the Turin Olympics. The biathlete was stripped of her silver medal in the individual race and disqualified for two years.
Important: the leader of the Russian team of the early and mid-2000s passed a positive test during the Olympics in Turin, after the individual race, where she finished second.
The sample contained the prohibited drug carphedon, which, according to representatives of the Russian delegation, the athlete used on the recommendation of a doctor from Krasnoyarsk, Nina Vinogradova, to treat a leg injury. Pyleva was disqualified for two years, after which she returned to big-time sports and became a two-time Olympic champion.
March 2008
...After the World Cup stage in Norway, Tatyana Moiseeva They found dexamethasone, but the athlete escaped punishment. The Russian Biathlon Union managed to prove that a prohibited substance was used to treat an eye disease of a biathlete.
February 2009
… Dmitry’s positive doping tests were announced Yaroshenko, Catherine Yurieva and Albina Akhatova. All of them were disqualified for two years for using recombined erythropoietin. Akhatova ended her career, Yaroshenko tried to return, but did not make it into the national team. Yurieva competed at the World Cup stages at the beginning of last season, but again passed a positive doping test.
December 2013
Irina's doping tests Old and Catherine Yurieva, taken during the out-of-competition period, gave a positive result for erythropoietin. Starykh was disqualified for two years and plans to continue her career. Yuryeva was disqualified for eight years for repeated doping, which effectively means a life ban.
The promising young Russian biathlete Alexander got into the same story. Loginov. The best junior of the 2012/13 season climbed to the World Cup podium in one of his first senior starts. On the eve of the next season at the end of November, he tested positive for erythropoietin. Unlike Yuryeva and Starykh, he escaped punishment, and before the start of the new season, a time bomb went off, and the SBR, together with the biathlete, received a kind of “black mark”...
So, the setting for the international doping stories of Russian biathlon has a clearly defined triangle - World Cup, World Championship and Olympic Games. The time step, as a systemic manifestation of scandals, is also understandable - three, four years. Whether this is related to the Olympic four-year cycle or not is difficult to say. But certain suspicions arise.
It is important to note that none of the recognized biathlon “powers”, be it Germany, Norway, France, or any of the developing biathlon countries - the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Slovakia or Poland, have such a shameful track record as the Russian biathlon "country".
They don't, and that's a fact.
Among other things, it should be noted that at the turn of 2008-2010, the media declared the former senior coach of the national team Valery Polkhovsky. Which was eventually replaced by a coaching team with the thesis of “an uncompromising fight against doping” Vladimir Barnashov. Which, in turn, was replaced by the “team Kasperovich"(de jure senior coach).
Characters like Selifonov, the former coach of the Russian women's national team, are a different story. Just look at his coaching “insight” about the “futility” of Domracheva and Kuzmina (Shipulina), who won a couple of Olympic medals. And also a very young Ulyana Kaisheva. Titan, in a word...
If we carefully compare coaching staffs over the shock doping decade, we will be surprised to discover that the same Valery Medvedtsev or Sergey Konovalov, as they worked in the early and mid-2000s with “collections”, they still work today... And there are many more who work!
What we mean is that traditionally the disqualified athlete remains the “extreme” in doping history. But the coach or doctor doesn’t seem to be “in business.” "Behind the scenes". However, it is clear even to a non-specialist that drugs (for example, EPO) must be taken according to a certain schedule. And this scheme should be tightly linked to the training process and competition schedule. It simply doesn’t happen any other way.
And who is “in charge” here—the athlete or the coach—is an open question. For discourse. But this discourse, as well as a normal investigation into doping cases, simply does not exist. Coaches and doctors are excluded by default...
Or maybe that’s what’s wrong with them?
It is no secret that in Russia “high performance sports” are financially supported by the state. And de facto, all contracts of the “training teams” and the coaching staff, as well as the conditions for the training process, are created at the expense of budget funds. Not directly, of course. But still at the expense of the taxpayer. In the form of various programs and centers for improving sportsmanship.
If Mr. Mutko or Mr. Kravtsov has a different opinion, we will be happy to listen...
Moreover, Olympic or other sporting achievements are paid for with very serious prize money - tens or hundreds of thousands of “green money”. There is a temptation to take risks and play the murky doping roulette. At stake is not only the notorious “money”, but also titles, state awards, honor and other joys... Including the title of Honorary Citizen of Labytnanga (Akhatov) or Honorary Citizen of the city of Tchaikovsky (Yuryev).
Like, maybe it will pass.
It blew by. Already.
Let us repeat, no other national team has such a shameful doping history as the Russians had from 2003 to 2013.
The geography of Russian “doping” is also very interesting - Akhatova is Western Siberia (KhMAO and Tyumen region). Yuryeva - Tchaikovsky (Perm region), where she started together with Nadezhda Burdyga. Olga Pyleva (Medvedtseva) - Krasnoyarsk. Dmitry Yaroshenko - Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Irina Starykh – Tyumen. Alexander Loginov - Saratov...
We won’t say that this is the entire biathlon geography of Russia, there is no Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Urals, but the “doping” part is impressive.
And one more observation. Since the beginning of the “doping shame”, age continuity has been clearly visible, from Akhatova’s biathlon generation in the 90s to Loginov’s generation in the mid-1990s...
And what is characteristic is that the Russian medal history of the “doping decade” is, to put it mildly, dismal.
And the last world championship was just “bang-bang and... past.”
After completing her sports career, Albina Akhatova became the personal trainer of her husband, Maxim Maximov, a member of the Russian national team. And from the 2012/2013 season she began working as a shooting coach in the Tyumen region team. She was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples (2007), medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I and II degrees.
Olga Pyleva (Medvedtseva) was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, in 2003, and in 2010, the Order of Friendship of Peoples.
Dmitry Yaroshenko has no state awards. After completing his sports career, he headed the Department of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Khanty-Mansiysk City Administration. Today Dmitry works in the autonomous institution "YugraMegaSport", a government structure of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug that manages the largest sports complexes in Yugra.
Yaroshenko himself positions his current self simply:
« I feel empowered and believe that I can bring much more benefit to the development of sports in the district while in a leadership position. I have support from athletes and sports veterans, sports federations, in addition, I understand how the sports industry works from the inside».
Here, as they say, there is nothing to say. I mean about “leadership work” and “knowledge of the sports industry from the inside.”
I’m still waiting for our “biathlon omerta” to be broken. No, not for the sake of confirming the McLaren show or demanding repentance from Russia in the style of Pound.
For the sake of Russian biathlon. Because everything described above is killing our biathlon without any overseas accomplices.
In the meantime, thank you for our common shame, Dima.
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Elena Dyachkova, specially for RIA Novosti Ukraine
Two-time Olympic champion, member of the RBU council Anatoly Alyabyev believes that Russian athletes should expect other unpleasant consequences of the McLaren report.
“Now they will open the samples, and something else will happen. Moreover, this is the attitude towards Russia, now they will look for any reason, but there was probably something there. I think they will find something. And here we need to talk not only about biathletes. Unfortunately, there is no smoke without fire. Now you just have to wait, but you can’t delude yourself that everything is fine; you have to wait for the catch, but it will certainly happen.", Alyabyev believes.
“I don’t think that any measures can come into force today. They could put a dent in the World Cup or the Olympics (2018). They will squeeze everything out of their hands. Don’t forget that sport is part of politics", he emphasized.
Will the IBU follow the path of the IBSF?
Two-time Olympic champion Dmitry Vasiliev believes that Besseberg will not allow madness in relation to Russia.
"The IBU will follow common sense, because there are reasonable people there. For example, Anders Besseberg, who is not a supporter of radical measures. I hope that he will not allow the madness that has happened now in bobsleigh and skeleton. I think the IBU will not act on unproven reasons to react so radically", Vasiliev told R-Sport.
And the former president of the RBU, four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov believes that the current events were caused by a complete lack of control over the situation in biathlon on the part of the former leadership of the RBU and President Mikhail Prokhorova, as well as the Ministry of Sports.
"We have already stopped being surprised by anything. I think these are probably responses from the previous team, most likely. I always had complete information and tried to convey it to the leadership of the federation, the ex-head of the RBU (Mikhail) Prokhorov, then, however, there wasn't. And it was useless."- said Tikhonov.
“I agree that there is a political component, but the complete lack of control, sheer chatter and verbiage of the former Minister of Sports and his team led to such results", added the Olympic champion.
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