Drug inventor: 'Meldonium is not doping'

Описание: (9 Mar 2016) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY

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Riga - 9 March 2016
1. Various of Ivars Kalvins, meldonium inventor, holding packets of meldonium (labeled as Mildronate)
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivars Kalvins, inventor of meldonium:
“You see, mildronate is not doping. And the big difference or the great difference is - all the dopings what the sportsmen or athletes are using, they are damaging health in the future perspective. The Mildronate is the opposite of this, it allows the people to keep their health in case of overloading and this is not the same as increase of performance, because if you use dopings you can immediately increase your performance capacities. This is not the case for mildronate, but mildronate allows you to make training work as hard as possible without damage of the heart in case if you are crossing the limits of allowed-ness.”
3. Various of laboratory work
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivars Kalvins, inventor of meldonium:
“The mechanism of action of this preparation (drug) is optimising of oxygen demand and use for energy production. What means that if the heart is working very hardly, then mildronate protects the heart cells from the heart muscle against ischaemia caused damages. Normally if you are crossing the limits of capacity of the heart action, the heart cells are dying out, and infarction or whatever happens. Mildronate is the protector against such events.”
5. Various laboratory work
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ivars Kalvins, inventor of meldonium:
“I think many soldiers in many countries, many armies are using still mildronate, because if the ischaemia is caused by, lets say, lack of oxygen in the air in mountains or whatever, in planes or in submarines, et cetera. It will protect the soldiers against damages. And if we are looking at countries like China, India producing hundreds of metric tonnes of meldonium substance, it means they use some there, but mildronate is not legislated in these countries, approved in these countries.”
7. Mildronate drug on table
8. Kalvins working at his desk
STORYLINE:
The drug at the centre of Maria Sharapova's doping case, regularly given to Soviet troops in the 1980s to boost their stamina while fighting in Afghanistan, is not a doping drug said the drug's inventor Ivars Kalvins.
The inventor of meldonium, also labeled as mildronate, said the drug helps athletes and soldiers to train harder without damaging their heart tissue.
He said it isn't doping as it doesn't immediately increase performance capacities.
Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam champion admitted she failed a doping test at the Australian Open in January for the meldonium drug, which she said she had been using for 10 years for various medical issues.
Meldonium was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency because it aids oxygen uptake and endurance, and several athletes in various international sports have already been caught using it since it was banned on 1 January.
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