Igor Mikhalkin "Take Meldonium for 15 years"

European champion in the light heavyweight 30-year-old Russian Igor Mikhalkin (18-1, 9 KOs) has passed a positive doping test for Meldonium and confessed that took Mildronate 500, that from January 1 this year is part of the prohibited drugs. In his interview with the extreme Mikhalkin admitted that for a long time to take Mildronate.

"I take Meldonium for 15 years, it is recommended by our experts, doctors at the junior team, youth, adult then. Then I switched to professional boxing, for every preparation I used Mildronate 500mg and Mildronate injection and did not think it could be banned. Just for old times' sake, it was a habit of mine. Our experts have recommended to us 15 years ago, these vitamins, Essentiale, Mildronate 500, Riboxinum, Phenotropil, Semax, Noopept. I used to prepare Mildronate 500, as a result it was found in me. I took Mildronate injections, before the first of January, so they find it out if. Then at the beginning of January, I went to Germany for training, and I'm not that specifically did not take, I just did not have time to buy some Russian pharmacies. I like it, maybe drunk, but there were circumstances that from January Mildronate 500 I did not use, because it simply forgot to take it. Apparently, the drug remains in the blood, urine, "- said in an interview Mikhalkin.

Mikhalkin was disqualified and stripped of the title of European champion in the light heavyweight division.