WADA - Most of the positive doping tests from 1 January fell on Meldonium

Meldonium in doping tests of Russian athletes.

Most of the positive doping samples taken from 1 January 2016, relates to the identification of athletes the body traces of Meldonium (Mildronate), he said in his microblog on Twitter official representative of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Ben Nichols.

On Monday, it became known that Maria Sharapova and Ekaterina Bobrova skater used the banned drug Meldonium (Mildronate). On Tuesday, it was reported that samples of the Olympic champion short tracker Semen Elistratova, five-time world champion skater Paul Kulizhnikova and volleyball team of Russia Alexander Markin also showed a positive result for the presence of Meldonium (Mildronate).