MOSCOW, Jul 29 Winner of the Stanley Cup in the club of the National Hockey League ( NHL) «Colorado Avalanche» Valery Nichushkin said that a hearing on the case of the alleged use of doping by the player should be held in the summer. In November, the press service of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) reported that the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) was investigating a possible violation Nichushkin anti-doping rules. It was reported that he could be banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for four years based on the data of the former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov. «It's already very late in Russian time. At first I think that someone is scamming me, and I'm not going to answer. Half an hour passed, I turned on the TV, and then a call. Kiknadze asked for my email address to send the documents. When I saw them, it was I was shocked by the level of argumentation and the degree of claims. Even to me, who was not thoroughly familiar with legal nuances, it became funny, «Nichushkin is quoted by the Sport-Express newspaper.» messages containing data on the samples of athletes participating in the state doping program were marked «save», which meant that h then the athlete is protected. And his sample, if doping is suddenly found in it, must be replaced. The text of the accusation in this part is completely written off from the McLaren report. However, immediately after this text, it is indicated that the «save» marks were not placed on the emails with the surname Nichushkin. And in my case, this does not prove that I did not dope. Real absurdity, then why quote McLaren before this conclusion?» he added.
