Russian skier Olympic champion Veronique Stepanova In her column on , she said that it is now impossible to hide the use of doping in sport.
— Doping control officers are invariably polite and morally stable people. Others, apparently, are not hired for this job – most athletes treat meetings with them as a situation with which nothing can be done, but which does not cause any joy. Rain always catches you during cross-country or cycling training, when you are as far away from the base as possible.
Anti-doping officers always knock on your door at the most inopportune moment – when you can’t sleep for a long time because of noisy neighbors, for example. Or they come to you at the moment when you have given all your strength on the ski slope and are not thinking about victory, but about how to eat and find yourself in the soul. And instead of these “awards”, about an hour with an anti-doping officer. By the way, when the awards ceremony is delayed, it almost always means that the date is long and no one can interrupt it.
“I will not categorically say that it is useless and that doping has completely disappeared from sports, including skiing. Because I have no right to generalize like that in principle. Now, consciously doping is equivalent to undressing on Red Square and hoping that no one finds out, records or films it,” Stepanova wrote.
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