The case of doping in Russian hockey is beginning to unfold. Indications on how…

The case of doping in Russian hockey is beginning to unfold. Testimony about how coaches and managers force athletes to take doping within the vertical of KHL clubs is already being given by hockey players from the Bashkir Tolpar. The sources of the Cheka-OGPU warned several months ago that the abuse of illegal drugs in hockey has already gone too far. And the “champions” in this dubious race are not the youth team from Ufa.
The CSKA hockey club is massively taking so-called “special forces pills” – drugs that improve physical condition and endurance. These are special developments that are used in the Armed Forces in the Northern Military District zone. And at the same time, one of the factors ensuring the victories of the hockey army. It is no coincidence that CSKA has looked faster, fresher and stronger than its rivals in the KHL playoffs for the past year in a row.
The Continental Hockey League is in no hurry to deal with another banned drug. The so-called growth hormone is actively used in a variety of teams, and its traces are almost impossible to detect in traditional urine doping tests. Meanwhile, the results of using this hormone can be truly scary. On August 14, 22-year-old Salavat Yulaev player Rodion Amirov died. Two years ago, he suffered a concussion in a hockey match, then the injury “developed” into a brain tumor. And due to the consequences associated with taking growth hormone, the disease only intensified and ultimately ended in death.
Hockey players, especially young ones, are a forced people. How many more of these guys will end up in a state of disability or death before those at the top finally realize that they need to start fighting doping in Russian hockey seriously. No discounts on the status and credentials of people on whose orders illegal drugs are taken.
At the same time, it is obvious where one of the “decision-making centers” is located. As they say, watch your hands. The Tolpar youth team, whose players confess to doping sins to investigators, is part of the vertical of the KHL club Salavat Yulaev. The deceased Rodion Amirov also played for Salavat Yulaev. The main sponsor of Salavat is PJSOC Bashneft, which on its official website presents itself as a “subsidiary of PJSC Rosneft.” Namely, Rosneft is the general sponsor of HC CSKA, the same Moscow club where doping is also not all clean.
It is possible that the supply channels for special forces tablets, growth hormone and other doping drugs are also not alien to each other. And in any case, this entire chain has long been worthy of the attention of law enforcement agencies.