UPL.TV commentator Vitaliy Volochai commented on the scandal involving Chelsea midfielder Mykhailo Mudryk, who tested positive for doping.
Vitaliy Volochai"For football fans, this is a new story, but for sports fans, it’s far from new. Meldonium is a miraculous potion that turns athletes into mega-champions — it was believed in Russia in the early 2000s. It was meldonium that was found in Sharapova and in virtually all medalists and champions of the Sochi Olympics, and all the schemes to substitute doping tests in Sochi 2014 were built around meldonium, which was the subject of at least one documentary."
"Meldonium is a drug that is widely used in Russia and Ukraine. Almost 95% of doping cases involving meldonium come from here, Eastern Europe. Moreover, 80% of these are from Russia, 15% from Ukraine, as we, of course, have many advocates of the Soviet school, and even more trainers with connections, so our athletes consumed doping no less than the Russians."
"I won't argue about the benefits or harms of meldonium. The fact that all the Russians consumed it and won something in leagues proves little. But the fact that any detection of meldonium — be it Russia or Ukraine — is indisputable."
"Meldonium cannot enter the body through food; it cannot enter the body accidentally. It is almost impossible to find meldonium in Britain."
"We await the B sample and the investigation, but meldonium is a f**king disaster. I don't know what was in the head of the person who gave Mudryk meldonium, but if it is indeed MELDONIUM — the ban should be for stupidity, not just for doping," Volochai wrote on his Telegram channel.
