Russian players inhaled ammonia before facing Spain and Croatia

The Russian national team doctor Eduard Bezuglov denied today that Russian football players have doped themselves during the World Cup before playing in the knockout rounds against Russia. Spain and the quarterfinals against Croatia. Ammonia is used to impregnate pieces of cotton and then inhaled, which thousands of athletes do to encourage it, it has been used for decades, "Bezuglov told local media [19659002] in sport, but in the daily life of people when someone loses consciousness or feels weak. "

" Just because of the strong smell that it gives off, you can go to any pharmacy buy cotton and ammonia.The newspaper "Bild" reported that before local football players go on the field against the Croats, one observed how many of them were rubbing their noses, which led the newspaper to denounce doping. the usual use of ammonia in the combined host

This n & rsquo; Is not the first time that Russian football is considered a doping suspect, since FIFA opened in 2016 an investigation into a plot in which eleven players cited by the McLaren report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).