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12-31-2008, 09:59 AM
Tests show Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs
BY MICHAEL OBERNAUER
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Monday, December 29th 2008, 6:28 PM
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Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Alexei+Cherepanov) took performance-enhancing drugs for months before his sudden death during a game in Russia (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Russia), federal investigators said Monday in Moscow (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Moscow).
Analysis of blood and urine samples in the wake of Cherepanov's Oct. 13 death during a Continental Hockey League (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Continental+Hockey+League) (KHL (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kontinental+Hockey+League)) game revealed the presence of illicit substances, according to a statement from the Russian federal Investigative Committee (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Investigative+Committee). A committee spokesman in Moscow would give no further details of what substances were found.
"(In) the blood and urine of Alexei Cherepanov traces of alcohol and drugs were found, but the chemical analysis suggests that for a few months he had been doping," Vladimir Markin (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Vladimir+Markin), a spokesman for the Investigative Committee, told the Russian news service Vesti.
The committee also said that Cherepanov suffered from myocarditis, a condition in which not enough blood travels to the heart and one Markin said Cherepanov had carried for roughly a year prior to his death. It said Cherepanov should not have been playing professional hockey, and that the team's medical staff may face legal ramifications.
Cherepanov, 19, the Rangers' first-round selection (17th overall) in the 2007 draft, collapsed on the bench during the third period of Avangard Omsk (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Avangard+Omsk)'s KHL game against Vityaz in Chekhov, a Moscow suburb. His death was met with widespread outrage at the quality of medical care he received at the rink, including the fact that the ambulances supposed to be stationed at the rink weren't there. Cherepanov was carried into the dressing room, where attempts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at a Chekhov hospital.
The Investigative Committee concluded in its statement Monday that a "row of gross violations was committed by the medical brigade" whose job it was to help Cherepanov. The statement asserted that, among other problems, doctors arrived to aid Cherepanov a full 12 minutes after he had collapsed, and that the rink's defibrillator was nonfunctional because its battery was spent.
Shortly after Cherepanov's funeral in Omsk (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Omsk), the KHL announced a slew of new medical safety measures, including the requirement that two properly staffed and equipped ambulances be on duty at every game, and a program that would provide players with a "single electronic medical passport for athletes . . . containing key information about a wide range of medical issues."
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/rangers/2008/12/29/2008-12-29_tests_show_rangers_prospect_alexei_chere.html
BY MICHAEL OBERNAUER
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Monday, December 29th 2008, 6:28 PM
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2008/12/30/amd_alexei.jpg
Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Alexei+Cherepanov) took performance-enhancing drugs for months before his sudden death during a game in Russia (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Russia), federal investigators said Monday in Moscow (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Moscow).
Analysis of blood and urine samples in the wake of Cherepanov's Oct. 13 death during a Continental Hockey League (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Continental+Hockey+League) (KHL (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kontinental+Hockey+League)) game revealed the presence of illicit substances, according to a statement from the Russian federal Investigative Committee (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Investigative+Committee). A committee spokesman in Moscow would give no further details of what substances were found.
"(In) the blood and urine of Alexei Cherepanov traces of alcohol and drugs were found, but the chemical analysis suggests that for a few months he had been doping," Vladimir Markin (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Vladimir+Markin), a spokesman for the Investigative Committee, told the Russian news service Vesti.
The committee also said that Cherepanov suffered from myocarditis, a condition in which not enough blood travels to the heart and one Markin said Cherepanov had carried for roughly a year prior to his death. It said Cherepanov should not have been playing professional hockey, and that the team's medical staff may face legal ramifications.
Cherepanov, 19, the Rangers' first-round selection (17th overall) in the 2007 draft, collapsed on the bench during the third period of Avangard Omsk (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Avangard+Omsk)'s KHL game against Vityaz in Chekhov, a Moscow suburb. His death was met with widespread outrage at the quality of medical care he received at the rink, including the fact that the ambulances supposed to be stationed at the rink weren't there. Cherepanov was carried into the dressing room, where attempts to revive him failed. He was pronounced dead at a Chekhov hospital.
The Investigative Committee concluded in its statement Monday that a "row of gross violations was committed by the medical brigade" whose job it was to help Cherepanov. The statement asserted that, among other problems, doctors arrived to aid Cherepanov a full 12 minutes after he had collapsed, and that the rink's defibrillator was nonfunctional because its battery was spent.
Shortly after Cherepanov's funeral in Omsk (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Omsk), the KHL announced a slew of new medical safety measures, including the requirement that two properly staffed and equipped ambulances be on duty at every game, and a program that would provide players with a "single electronic medical passport for athletes . . . containing key information about a wide range of medical issues."
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/rangers/2008/12/29/2008-12-29_tests_show_rangers_prospect_alexei_chere.html