Doping-WADA announces meldonium amnesty (Reuters)
(Updates with more details, federation reactions and background) By Dmitriy Rogovitskiy MOSCOW, April 13 (Reuters) – Athletes who tested positive for meldonium before March 1 could have their bans overturned less than four months before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after WADA said it was unable to establish how quickly the drug, outlawed since Jan. 1, cleared the system. The World Anti-Doping Agency’s notice to national anti-doping bodies is expected to have a major impact on many of the 120-plus athletes who have tested positive for the performance-boosting drug since January. WADA said there was “currently a lack of clear scientific information on excretion times”.