The current year is proclaimed WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) year of meldonium in Russia and around the world. Still it isn't clear, than to officials this component so attracted, but they for some reason decided to enter it in the list of forbidden. It became the bolt from the blue for many athletes who were included in the expanded list on disqualification. Against the background of this story which is already hackneyed for half a year it is possible to remember the one which else of representatives of sport doping left away from the profession.
Any admirer of soccer, even just learned from more skilled father about what is soccer, heard the name of Diego Armando Maradona. The legend of world size, the famous inventor of "God's hand" in the match with England – all this about it. In 1991 the football public learned that Maradona periodically resorted to the help of cocaine in which the football player as he claimed, there was his rescue from stresses and loadings. Arguments of the Argentinean weren't received by anti-doping committee with understanding, and Maradona had to leave for the year professional football. Its return was not less loud. During the World Cup of 1994 in the USA Diego quite violently noted the goal in the goal of Greece, having decided to show all the most close up. This attack of joy also cost to it the next doping scandal. Having suspected wrong of Maradona's look on that shot, officials of FIFA conceived to take from the player blood on the analysis. Doping test was undergone by the Argentinean after the next match with Nigeria. Unfortunately the ephedrine and its derivatives found among erythrocytes and Maradona's leukocytes for that period was forbidden in sports circles. So the Argentina legend was resent under tribunal, for 15 months.
Probably, the bitter experience of the football player of combined "albaselesta" taught representatives of all types to be extremely accurate. Says about it also the fact that waited for world-class following doping scandal 12 years later. This time the cycling "caused a stir". Floyd Landis won the race "Tour de France" and without fail had to undergo the doping test. For Landis everything ended is deplorable, and after detection in its blood of traces of synthetic testosterone the cyclist lost the rank of the winner "Tour de France". Even more severe fate comprehended his compatriot and the colleague – famous Lance Armstrong, long time being considered as the real hero who won cancer. As it became clear in 2012, moral and strong-willed qualities not alone helped the American to transfer exercise stresses. During the investigation, the started WADA after positive results of one of doping tests of the athlete, he was recognized the use inadmissible as the code of substances. And when officials of the Union Cycliste Internationale learned that similar occurred since 1998, their verdict was severe and unshakable: to deprive of Armstrong of all titles, starting with stated above the period. The racer for life was excluded from the competition.
It would be desirable to finish the story Michael Phelps's history – the genius from the swimming which set all imaginable and inconceivable records on number of gold medals of the Olympic Games and World Cups. In 2009 at one of friendly parties meticulous paparazzi caught the American behind the session of the use of drugs. Pictures got to the press, scandal ran high, but didn't develop into anything serious in spite of the fact that rumors as if Phelps abuses very long ago went. And so the person whose life, one may say, passes in water, dry of it and left.