What Is Trimetazidine and Why Is It Banned in the Winter Olympics and

An angina drug called trimetazidine has been in the news lately connected to the 2022 Winter Olympics, but it"s been on the radar of anti-doping authorities for years. Russian media reported that the team figure skating medals ceremony was delayed after a Russian skater tested positive for the presence of trimetazidine in December. (NBC News has reached out to the International Skating Union and the Russian Olympic Committee, but neither has responded.)The drug, sometimes called TMZ, was added to a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibited list in 2014. Normally prescribed to treat angina -- chest pain from reduced blood flow to the heart -- it also has athletic benefits as well. WADA lists it as a metabolic modulator and prohibits it at all times, in and out of competition.According to knowledge of the pharmacology and mechanism of TMZ action, TMZ can be used by athletes to improve physical efficiency, especially in the case of endurance sports, scientists wrote in a 2014 paper on abuse of the drug by Polish athletes. Doping in the OlympicsSo far there has only been one confirmed positive doping test at the 2022 Winter Olympics, an Iranian skier who tested positive for an anabolic steroid. Then there is the case of the team known as ROC, or the Russian Olympic Committee - competing under that unusual moniker after Russia (the country) received a two-year doping ban from WADA. Russian athletes competed last summer in Tokyo under the ROC flag as well. All data is taken from the source: http://nbcnewyork.com Article Link: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/beijing-winter-olympics/what-is-trimetazidine-and-why-is-it-banned-in-the-winter-olympics-and-other-sports/3544083/ #Trimetazidine #newsyoutube #kingworldnews #newstodaymsnbc #newstodayworld #newsworld #


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