First and foremost, congrats to Russia for advancing to the Semifinal Round after winning their match against Canada! Russia is on track to defend their Olympic crown.
In an article released by sport-express.ru, Coach Alekno reveals that his players get random doping tests WAY TOO MANY TIMES within the last 3 days.
“In the past three days, we have handed over urine samples as we didn’t for half a year.” -Coach Alekno
First of all, all Russian volleyball athletes got cleared to compete before their Olympic matches started.
Also, we don’t know what the standard protocol is on how often these Olympians should get tested but we can’t blame these officials knowing that Russia made headlines because of the Doping Scandal.
Thoughts?
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