Austrian skiers used stimulants at the Olympics-2006

Austrian skiers at the 2006 Games in Turin used stimulants. On Thursday at the parliamentary hearings in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, dedicated to the results of the Olympic Games in Turin, said the head of the anti-doping inspection Russian Nikolay Durmanov.

Durmanov noted, the Special Commission of the International Olympic Committee set up to investigate the doping scandal, it was found that the Austrian athletes used psychotropic drugs and antidepressants. Among these are - Coaxil, Zoloft, Paxil, Cipramil, mirtazapine.

In the opinion of Durmanova "psychopharmacology - this is an area of medical knowledge, which will be increasingly used in professional sport in the next 4 years and will be one of the most important areas of sports medicine in the future." Durmanov considered Phenotropil, because of the use which has been disqualified biathlete Olga Pyleva, to the class of psychoactive substances.

Among other medical innovations that can have a serious impact on the cleanliness of this great sport, and to be a major problem for doping control, Dopes called gene doping.
Dopes noted that active work on deciphering the sporting genes of being in the world, responsible for individual muscle groups, endurance, immunity, creating a gene passport athlete. "In Russia, it is necessary to move in this direction, as well as the gene data bank and the National Anti-Doping Code is to be created, tougher than the World anti-doping Agency", - concluded the Dopes.