First Povetkin and now Sharapova

Anyone recall Teddy Athlas talking about Povetkin's lack of endurance. All of a sudden, this man goes from struggling with a career cruiserweight (Huck) to looking fresh towards the end of his fight with Wladimir Klitschko after getting hugged and leaned on all throughout the fight.

 

Meldonium has been legal for over 50 years, says something about how seriously people take it as a PED.

 

According to some posters on here, Povetkin's positive tests was more political thatn substance. According to them, the West wanted to make Putin look by making Meldoniom illegal.:conf

 

A lot of PEDs initially are not cosidired performance enhancers until several case studies are conducted confirming that they really do improve athletes performance.

 

Well politics and sports are intertwined, the WADA has been well aware of the existence of Meldonium since its inception in the 1970's in Latvia, but did nothing because there is no evidence that it could warrant a ban , and thus become an unfair PED to use, until the Russians annexed the Crimea, they all of a sudden placed it on the WADA watch list atsch

 

And evidence of effects of Meldonium on athletic performance are not conclusive, which is why many people think this was a political stunt.

 

If Meldonium have no performance effect why then are so many athletes taking them?:think

 

I would happily jackhammer her hairy axe wound.

 

Because they think it does something, the placebo effect, these guys could might as well be using some type of other legal supplement and it will give them the same result. This is another reason why it took the WADA more than 50 years to ban this drug, there is no conclusive evidence about it being labeled an unfair PED to use. People take creatine because they think it gives them an edge as well, when it could just as easily be replaced with shrimp and mussels.

 

I've read so many online news sites since so many Russian Athlete began testing positive for Meldonioum, this site is the only one where politics have been provided as an alternative explanation why the drug was placed on the ban list. Knowing how racially polorizing this site is, I will take that explanation with a grain of salt.

 

NOPE, it has been mentioned everywhere, you also got explanations why it COULD be politically motivated

http://www.firstpost.com/sports/mel...ainst-russian-athletes-fmba-head-2739274.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rts-wada-performance-enhancing-drug/82663156/

http://tass.ru/en/sport/870891

Have you read how ANTI-Russian western sites are? Notice how nobody is even complimenting Russia for liberating areas from ISIS controlled areas in Syria.