Doping: How athletes will be punished

Today is actively discussed the issue of legal liability for the use of performance-enhancing drugs. In connection with the measures discussed inflames debate in which opinions were divided athletes.

Actively supports new sanctions Svetlana Zhurova, skater, vice-speaker of the State Duma: "doping law not only necessary, it is necessary, otherwise I would not be so actively engaged in work on them. The draft law is proposed to introduce in the domestic legal framework the term "doping" and attributed to illegal activities distribution, possession and the appointment of an athlete "prohibited substances". The document stipulates that the wrongful act is the refusal and failure to provide samples for anti-doping commission. The project proposes to consolidate the legal status of the National Anti-Doping Association and introduce a rule for mandatory participation in its organs of state representatives and major sports organizations in Russia.

But most importantly - we propose to introduce responsibility for the use of illicit drugs not only for athletes but also for coaches and physicians to facilitate a breach of anti-doping legislation. I will never believe that the coach and the doctor does not know about the forbidden manipulation that holds athlete. And if this is proved, they should incur administrative punishment. "

However, most athletes are convinced that the problem of doping is very ambiguous and the introduction of new laws it will not solve, but only complicate the lives of athletes.

Nikolay Kruglov (biathlon): "I do not think we need to come up with a law to paint that is doping, why some drugs can be taken, while others do not. I think the legislators have yet to do something else. There are anti-doping centers, special laboratories - that is their business. Sports committees can and should check the athletes before competition, but not politics. And then let's introduce a special unit of the police, which will monitor the athletes and then arrest them and imprison ...

I do like the idea slipped from the lips of some officials of the sport, who proposed to equate the removal from the competition on suspicion of doping fraud and judging the athletes as criminals. The idea is good and powerful, but not in our country. We all turn to bribery, extortion, the ability to "remove" unwanted people from a distance and the manipulation of results. So, in my opinion, Russia in the field of doping is better to leave things as they are and do nothing. "

Maria Kiseleva (synchronized swimming): "In my life there was a doping scandal at the Olympics in Sydney. The blood was found banned drug, it became a part of diet pills. Who knew that being said, who knew ... It was threatened with disqualification for 3 months and misses to the Olympics, but I saved a mitigating detail: the doctor wrote in the doping list unfortunate drug that is on record as saying that I accept it.

Naturally, I did not know that the components of a food supplement is just that year - the first time - will be banned, and I still feel that to me some injustice has occurred.

The trouble all athletes, in my view, a lack of awareness. Unable to all those involved in the sport, made aware of the new list of prohibited drugs, which are updated almost every day ... And if the list is corrected, in my opinion, should be more loyal refer to those who "got burned" on a new, just appeared in it points. And I am convinced that in any case it is not necessary to the Code of Administrative Offences to make penalties for athletes - believe me, a man who lives for sports and which suddenly excluded from training or games already punished - worse than ever ... "

Svetlana Khorkina (gymnastics): "Think of the Beijing Olympics. Many said that Chinese athletes used doping, why have such unprecedented results. Samples were taken - did not show anything. What is the conclusion? Progress and new technology. Science does not stand still, it goes along with sports, running sports, because such a result. I am convinced that doping in sport has been at all times, and always will be, and the skill of chemists and scientists - to invent a drug that does not detect any one sample. In many countries over these issues they beat the best minds work leading institutions. But, significantly, those doping scandals that appear and become available to the public - they, as a rule, are not worth a jigger. In the blood of athletes looking for traces of headache pills or painkillers ... and find. A real doping can not be determined ... So all this, in my opinion, unnecessary theater performance. But it may be a party, while you're in the big sports. "

Olga Pyleva (biathlon): "The fact that the drug Phenotropil included in the black list of the World Anti-Doping Agency of me and my doctor made aware only on the eve of the competition. Previously, I always apply it - on the doctor's recommendation. And the fact that it can no longer have affairs, was not only a surprise but a shock - and for me and for other athletes. I have always been honest in the fight, and this absurdity, because of which I was disqualified and stripped of medals after the Olympic Games-2006, alas, no one is forced to think about what is really happening in the world of sports ...

I would very much like to see the law on doping somehow helped athletes, but, alas, the apprehension I have such that it will only worsen the situation and will do so, that person just got on any such absurdity, will never be able to return a great sport.

And, Phenotropil by the way, found in my sample is known to all athletes medication prescribed it for injuries, and I used it for the treatment of an ankle injury. "

Irina Rodnina (figure skating): "Doping control was in all the major competitions is always - and in my time, too. Discussions have been convicted in the sports press were penalties were. But the scandal is not considered. Violations are always punished, but about any criminal liability, fines of a giant pocket athletes and speech could not be. I am therefore very doubtful seems the initiative of our legislators. It is appropriate to introduce in the Code of Administrative Offences and article to create a precedent by condemning one competitor, as here there are those who take advantage of it. Why work on themselves, spending time on the grueling workouts, if you can just bribe the chef who at the restaurant, where lunch is your competitor, athlete, just podsyplet him in the soup any prohibited powder. And the fact that you are not a camel, then he proves neither even the most experienced lawyer. "

Yolanda Chen (athletics): "I am against the new law, I do believe that doping test should be canceled. Will explain. All athletes - people live, they drink and drugs, in fact, everyone take, use of doping. What to catch than an infinite number of Russian athletes, whether biathletes, athletes, weightlifters, and so on, as the doping is not. I probably understand people with medical education. Medical preparations great variety and no one knows which of them will be considered doping commission banned the following year, for example Mildronate. For example, doping gets Furasimide. It is a diuretic drug. Well, what is doping? Here Alina Kabaeva at the time had a problem with Furosemide. But what does this have to do doping in sport? Bollocks something! In most cases it is. Preparations declare prohibited people with no medical training. They do not understand what it is. They think that it is some superpreps that something was building up. This is categorically not the case. I would argue it is one hundred percent. Therefore, probably, without doping is impossible to do, because all the people just use drugs, but for some reason in the sport, these drugs are considered doping and is not normal ... ".