Several Players Expose Their Coach For Forcing Suspicious Injections

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Sam Walker
August 25, 2023 (1:15 PM)

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In a startling turn of events, the doping controversy surrounding seven players from Ufa Tolpar, the junior team of Salavat Yulaev in the KHL, has deepened.

These players now claim that their coach compelled them to take unknown substances, backed by threats to their careers. Caught with banned substances earlier this year, they've pointed fingers at the physical training coach.

The players assert that suspicious supplements and injections were administered against their will, and their attempts to resist were met with threats of reporting to higher authorities.

"According to the source, the athletes said that suspicious supplements and injections were prescribed to them by the physical training coach. According to them, they tried to resist, but the coach threatened them with complaints to the team director and career problems. The team management did not intervene in the situation, believing that the physical training coach knows better. - Championat.com

The team management reportedly failed to intervene. The players tested positive for Meldonium, a substance prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The allegations have cast a cloud of uncertainty over the team's dynamics and the future actions against the implicated coach.

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