Can Someone Tell Me..........

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60329120
...what possible use are drugs to a figure skater? Not an endurance event, not a strength event, I don't get it.

[davebro]

I would think it's quite a strenuous activity - have you tried it TTT?

[Old_Geezer]

They get you high.

[ToraToraTora]

dave, strenuous a bit for a few minutes but not exactly the TDF is it!

[douglas9401]

You're on to a loser with this one, Tora.

If there was no potential benefit then they wouldn't be given. I don't know the detail but I doubt it was recreational.

[Gromit]

In short, it improves blood flow to the heart, giving the user more energy and oxygen to the brain.

// Trimetazidine is listed in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited substances list under the category of "hormone and metabolic modulators", and its use is prohibited at all times "in- and out-of-competition." In 2014, Chinese Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang tested positive for trimetazidine, which had been newly banned four months earlier and classified as a prohibited stimulant at the time by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Sun was consequently banned by the Chinese Swimming Association for three months. In January 2015, WADA reclassified and downgraded trimetazidine from a "stimulant" to a "modulator of cardiac metabolism." In February 2022, media reported that Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) skater Kamila Valieva allegedly tested positive for trimetazidine on one occasion two months prior to the 2022 Winter Olympics, while noting that neither the IOC nor the ISU had confirmed the positive test. //

[Mozz71]

Read the article and it will tell you Tora.

//Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine, which is used in the prevention of angina attacks, but is on the Wada banned list because it is classed as a cardiac metabolic modulator and has been proven to improve physical efficiency.//

Quite possible that she was taking them for the former, but she is Russian. State sponsored doping seems to be rife in Russian sport. A shame that a 15 year old was the victim of thr doping (whether accidental or not)

[ToraToraTora]

doug 09:23, this is a Q&A site that's why I asked the question, there must be some benefit I just don't understand what it can be.

[Gromit]

It is medically used to treat angina.
An anti-coagulant, it speeds up blood flow.

[ToraToraTora]

mozz/gromit: Just seems like a huge risk for marginal help.

[Mozz71]

Well, I'm guessing her manager/coach/whatever thought she wouldn't get caught. As I said, a shame for the kid herself. Her career in tatters because others took an unnecessary risk with it.

[Hopkirk]

At elite a marginal help can be enough.

If it improves physical efficiency, in a physically demanding activity, of course it could help.

There is no way she needs it for angina.

[Gromit]

The failed test was 3 months ago.

She will have been tested at these games, and that might well be clean. But she shouldn’t have been competing, so the medal is voided.

[ichkeria]

One of the more predictable news stories of the year.
Very sad.
She may not even know she was taking it.

[Ellipsis]

It's probably very good to be on drugs to watch figure skating ...

[calmck]

I think that the fact a 15 year old girl can do a quad jump would raise questions to all connected with Ice Skating. There are not that many adult men let alone women who can do this. The power and stamina a teenager would need must be quite something

[ichkeria]

"Unclean Kamila"

:-)

[Ken4155]

As Toyah one said, "Ith a mythtery".

[ichkeria]

It’s no mystery it appears.

Russia again proves itself a pariah of world sport.
This is what happens when you have career criminals in charge

[Ken4155]

Calmck, this wasn't the first time she has executed the quad jumps. apparently she's been doing them for some time. I see that the competition she won after taking the banned substance was the Russian Figure Skating Championship in Dec 2021, which she not only won, but more than doubled the largest winning margin in women's Russian figure skating since the scoring system changed 15 years ago.

[calmck]

I was not questioning if this was her first quad jump but how can a girl her age be able to do one when many of the older and more physically mature skaters cannot. If she has done them before and at a younger age, in my mind, this would raise more concern that something is not completely kosher