The final composition of the teams for the BRICS Games (12-23 June, Kazan) will be made at the training camp at Round Lake that began 23 May, says Valentina Rodionenko. Already selected are Angelina Melnikova, Sergei Naidin and Daniel Marinov. Belyavski, Nagorny and Dalaloyan will be at the training camp. Denis Ablyazin injured his knee at Russian Championships and is unable to compete at present. Viktoria Listunova is not expected to compete. She still has back pain and doctors have advised only light training for the time being. Vlada Urazova is also out with an injury.
It was a Sunday morning. I was drinking my coffee and contemplating the day ahead - a workout at the gym, shopping for groceries, an evening reading a book, or catching up on last night's episodes of crime thriller The Bridge . How nice it was not to have to think about work for a day. Then I saw it - a story about the history of doping in The Observer . Interesting reading. Of course, cheating is as old as the hills. It is, unfortunately, human nature for some people to try to gain easy advantage in any kind of competition. That is why we have laws, rules, ethical guidelines. People who cheat should face justice and shouldn't complain when they are found out. But the story about pregnancy doping bothered me. Hadn't that been found to be fictional? The author began with Olga Kovalenko's allegations made in 1994 - but the rumours had started way back in 1991 with the documentary series More Than A Game . The practice of pregnancy doping was dis
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