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Alexander GovorovSports correspondentAll materialsWhile the whole world is following the case of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, another doping story took place at the Beijing Olympics, which remained in the shadows. Ukrainian skier Valentina Kaminska was caught on powerful illegal drugs and announced her retirement in disgrace. Why does the Western press not react to this in any way? What drugs were found in the body of a Ukrainian woman Kaminska passed a positive doping test after a 10 km race from a separate start. Traces of the anabolic steroid mesterolone and two types of stimulants, methylkegsanamine and heptaminol, were found in her body. Such substances could not enter the body by accident. «These are substances that directly affect athletic performance. They have long been banned, they are caught for a very long time in the body. She could use them for a very long time. It is not the substance itself that is caught, but the metabolite. In modern sports, their use — a big stupidity, because they can be found for a sufficiently long period of time. There is no point in taking them, «said sports doctor Valentin Belyaevsky. The strangeness of the situation lies in the fact that Kaminskaya took only 79th place in that race. In the sprint, she finished in 70th position, and in the relay, the Ukrainian team was removed from the race as a lap behind. And at that moment, it was the 34-year-old Kaminska who ran for the Ukrainians. It is not very clear why take such strong drugs when you clearly do not pretend to high places. Valentina, shortly before the Olympics, suffered a coronavirus, but it could hardly have affected the results of the skier so much.