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| Russias team doctor says anti-doping officials visited the team camp four times in the run-up to Euro 2016. Inspectors have carried out 44 tests, according to Dr Eduard Bezuglov, who has questioned whether other teams at the finals are being treated the same.Russian sport has been hit by doping scandal in recent months, and the countrys athletes still do not know if they will be allowed to participate at this summers Olympic Games. But sports minister Vitaly Mutko last week dismissed an allegation he helped cover up a top footballers positive drug test as silly and Dr Bezuglov, speaking at a press conference in France, said there is nothing in the history of Russian football to warrant such heavy scrutiny from the authorities.We have been asking this question to ourselves, he said. Whether we have been tested more than others. All national teams are under the control of UEFA and FIFA, and before the group stages of the competition the Russian national team were already visited more than three times by doping control inspectors.First they inspected 10 people at a time, then on the 4th time they just looked at four people. All this is happening at 7am, and these inspectors even broke a record once by coming at 6.30am. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has denied allegations of a doping cover-up But we treat all this with understanding. We dont know whether this is the same for the other teams, and maybe they dont get inspected that often; however, there is a hope that everybody is treated equally. And I am saying this is because the Russian national football team has never had any precedents of this kind. We have never had a single problem like that.And this is throughout the whole history of Russian football - and I would like to emphasise that - the number of doping tests in Russian football has always been well above the requirement and we have never had any problems like that whatsoever. Russia celebrate their late equalising goal against England in Marseille So we do understand that any information from any kind of media source - even if it is from India - is a reason to come to us at 6.30am to test our football players. So like I said the players treat this with understanding, but we will never give you the satisfaction of having your suspicions come true.Dr Bezuglov then asked an English journalist how many times Englands players had been tested and was told his questioner could not provide the answer.They dont know?, he said. English media knows everything! In Russia we think that English people know everything about their football team.So they have not been tested, am I right? So now we can compare - we have been tested 44 times and the English - not at all. So here you go, here is the answer for you.Asked for a response to Bezuglovs comments, UEFA told The Associated Press that it does not provide figures on the number of tests conducted for each team.The body has said its anti-doping program for Euro 2016 is the largest ever conducted at a European Championships and would feature extensive out-of-competition testing, in-competition tests at every match and targeted testing based on intelligence and knowledge-sharing.Contacted by the AP, the English Football Association said it would not be revealing any information on how many tests Englands players have had before or during the Euros. Also See: Russia fans defended honour Russians trained to fight Euro 2016 Fixtures Latest video Tables Get Sky Sports Get a ￡10 free bet! 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Head coach Randy Carlyle observed "tenseness" in the early stages of Tuesdays loss to St. Louis, pushing his club to be more assertive against Philadelphia, currently third in the Metropolitan Division - three points ahead of Toronto. "If youre going to stand there and youre in a street fight and youre not going to move, youre going to allow somebody to swing away, youre going to get hit," said Carlyle. "But if you move and try to avoid the hit and do what you do youre not going to get hit as many times, simple as that." Starts have become the most obvious foe to success during the two-week slide, early and often deep deficits too much to overcome. "So we have to move ourselves," said Carlyle. "We have to move our feet, we have to continue to move the puck effectively, we have to skate … Those are the things that we have to correct and we have to correct it for [Friday] night." "Were starting the games terrible," Kessel said. "Were getting down a couple goals. Theyre out-playing us the first half of the game and then all of a sudden we wake up and we come [back] and its just too late." The same could be said of their playoff fortunes. A collapse under these circumstances might pale in comparison to 2012, given their comfortable state with just weeks to go - they were up three points on the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning as recently as two weeks ago, now trailing both by a wide margin - and the heightened expectations of a club seemingly on the rise. Its a sting they wont want to experience again. "It snowballed on us," Phaneuf said after that season-sealing loss to Carolina two years ago. "We lost a lot of tight games and we just could not recover or find a way out of it as a group." Will they this time around time around? The answer will come soon enough. ' ' ' |
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