Head Coach “Chekhov Bear” Vladimir Maksimov in an interview with suggested that someone handed over the handball player of the Russian national team and CSKA Moscow Dmitry Kiselev, in whose doping test they found cocaine.
Previously, Kiselev had been disqualified for three months for using cocaine. A positive doping test was carried out on a 27-year-old athlete after the Super League semi-final second leg with the Perm Bears, which took place on May 14.
– If the swab was made after the match with the Perm Bears, then under the influence of the substance, apparently, then he played against the Chekhov Bears. I saw that he was in a rather difficult physical condition, but he played very well, had a brilliant match.
It is not known why they decided to take a sample after this match of the Russian championship and more precisely of Kiselev. In handball, cases of doping are generally rare, handball has not previously been implicated in the use of drugs that stimulate and improve the physical form of the athlete.
In the Russian handball championship there were doping controls from time to time. Then they practically stopped. Our team was not sampled in the semi-finals, for example.
And the question is why was Kiselev called for a doping test? If the whole team or several players were called up, then that would be understandable. And since they suddenly checked a specific player, it means someone knew and betrayed the player. It’s kind of a setup,” Maksimov told .
The suspension is effective from the date the Athlete was made aware of the Athlete’s possible anti-doping rule violation, which is June 8, 2022. For three months, Kiselev will be ineligible to compete under the auspices of FGR and international tournaments, and he is also suspended from training with CSKA.
Source : MatchTV
