"Losing to a scammer - no!". Who and why is poisoning Russian biathletes. Thrown into the embrasure: Alexander Loginov and Irina Starykh Biathlon Alexander Loginov biography

French biathlete Aristide Begu on his Twitter called Alexander Loginov a scammer. "SE" understands the sensational story.

WHO IS ARISTIDE BEGU?

22-year-old French biathlete. In 2015, he became the world junior champion in the individual race, the European champion in the same discipline and made his debut in the IBU Cup. Last season he won two races in the IBU Cup. A month ago, at the World Cup in Nove Mesto, I got a chance to compete in the sprint, but took 61st place. At the last stage of the IBU Cup in Martel, he was sixth in the pursuit, also 8th and 37th in the sprint, each time losing to Loginov for more than a minute and a half.

Four-time World Junior Champion. At the age of 19, he won the Izhevsk rifle and got the opportunity to start at the IBU Cup. In February 2013 he made his debut in the World Cup, where he finished third in the pursuit. After returning from disqualification, he became fourth at the IBU Cup stage in Obertillach, and after the Christmas holidays he won the sprint and pursuit race in Martell.

WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF CLAIMS TO LOGINOV?

The Russian has resumed his career after a two-year ban for using erythropoietin (EPO) - one of the most powerful doping drugs, which is impossible to accidentally take. Under the current Anti-Doping Code, Loginov would have received a four-year suspension from sports for his use. In addition, there is an opinion that for such violations, athletes should be disqualified for life from the first time. At the moment, Alexander is absolutely clean before the sports law and can perform at both Russian and international competitions.

Following the results of his performance at the Russian Cup, Loginov was selected for the first team and could have competed at the World Cup stage in Oberhof, but again went to the IBU Cup.

Not now best moment to challenge him to the World Cup, - said the head coach of the Russian men's team Ricco Gross on the air of the All for the Match program. - We may need it in the next Olympic season. Of course, we understand that he international starts needed, but for its appearance here you need to choose the right moment. Now there are a lot of conversations, a lot of discussions with the International Biathlon Union, so we need to wait a little with it.

However, the stain on Loginov's biography remains in any case, and no one can forbid other biathletes or fans to publicly condemn the actions he committed in the past.

WHO SAID WHAT

Big crystal globe Martin Fourcade tweeted a repost of Begue's sensational post.

Earlier, the Frenchman also repeatedly spoke out against the fact that athletes had the opportunity to return to sports after serving a doping ban, suggested that they be banned from holding positions in sports federations and even commenting on races. With regard to Loginov, the champion also could not remain silent.

Unfortunately, one Russian athlete who competed today in the IBU Cup was caught doping (EPO) only 2 years ago. I sincerely believe that the managers and coaches of the Russian Biathlon Federation are sending the wrong signal by allowing him to compete again at this troubled time,” Fourcade wrote on his official Vkontakte page.

Loginov himself does not want to comment on the situation, but the coach of the women's team of the Tyumen region, Leonid Guryev, considers Begu's words to be an ordinary insult to a loser.

Everyone is free to express their opinion. Let's then call everyone scammers, - said Guryev. - Loginov served a disqualification according to the rules. What is he guilty of? Not with anything. There was a violation for which he suffered the appropriate punishment and again went to the start. Why shouldn't he act now? This is the usual saying of a loser who is trying to spread some kind of dirt! You shouldn't pay attention to it. In sports, there is often unhealthy envy and competition.

Now a lot of things are being said about Russian athletes, - said the world champion in 2007 and 2008 Dmitry Yaroshenko. - But what kind of double standards? Why does no one pay attention to, for example, the Norwegians or the British, who were also disqualified? All of them also return to the sport and continue to perform. And here suddenly such hysteria!

The strong are always eye-catching. Alexander has already suffered his punishment. Let's follow the anti-doping rules! Otherwise, what are they for? I think that many people have such an attitude towards Russian sports in general. And at every opportunity they carry out their attacks. Championships are taken away from us, and later, when checking, it turns out that the athletes are “clean”.

With a similar statement, the French biathlete signed his weakness! I note that other athletes of the world biathlon speak with restraint. Before you say something, you need to prove that a person is really guilty of something.

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The head coach of the Russian men's biathlon team, German Ricco Gross, said that one cannot be sure of the "purity" of any athlete in the world.

Analyst, I remember the old rule of Internet trolls. - No arguments and facts, get to the bottom of spelling.
And about nonsense and about the stream of consciousness, you are talking about yourself. and you could already analyze that I just turned off this “red line” of yours, because it puts all sorts of words in other words. For example, instead of Slepov, he puts Sleptsova, and so on.) That's why it turned out like that. That's why now I'm typing with errors.
So your analytics is a bit tight, Analyst.)
And for your information, you can read the text with errors and even with other words auto-supplied by the browser, and not by the computer. Even without vowels at all, or with a rearrangement of syllables in a sentence. Well, for this, the truth is *** analysis on the go, in real time.)
And so don't read me and don't answer me, pick a level for yourself that you can analyze.)

Ladies and gentlemen! You read your writings and want to cry. Especially there are smart women who know everything. They laugh at Loginov that he treated PROSTATITIS. I want to say before laughing. Find out at least what prostatitis is and when it can appear in the male body. its causes and consequences. And young people also need to know about this insidious disease. Hypothermia, etc. will lead to it - prostatitis. And how Sasha was treated and what are the questions for the doctors of the team. Now, if Begu develops prostatitis in the spring, will he be a swindler or an invalid, this is a question. Nobody is safe. And you can't win. try not to croak.

Valery Alekseevich, Please follow the market. Enough here to drive a watered blizzard! there are other sites for that. How do people live in the west, but did you live there yourself? Russian athletes do not have any big problems with doping. There is a war going on, they no longer hesitated to announce that all the fuss around Russian sports connected because of the World Cup. Only you with your education do not know about it.

A Montenegrin, when a computer underlines the nonsense that you write with a red wavy line, this does not mean that he does not agree with you, he hints at your mistakes. Take a closer look, your "stream of consciousness" is not always clear.

Let's be democratic!. That is, remember that “Demos” in Greek is the people, But our people were lowered both financially and morally in the 90s ... But we are civilized people and we understand that everything has been happening from 2000 to the present day - this is humiliation of a Russian person, under the propaganda of the former KGB ... They continue to make puppets of us, as well as athletes ...

Valery Alekseevich, somewhere I have already heard about the whole world ... But I remembered. "Vesmirsnami" is the slogan of crests.

Montenegrin, they took it off the tongue! 100%

Valery Alekseevich, I was on my way to Kaliningrad through Germany. And let's also, don't take us for fools like Vada. The Germans, and I spoke with them, want Putin as president.
But over that idiotic and Russophobic propaganda that flows in their media, they really do not laugh, but are angry. Because what the "children" of Martin's ancestors are doing there, even a hundredth part does not get into the media there. Therefore, in response, all these doss houses are burning there. So do not talk about "look how they live in the West."

When I watched the Tour de Ski on Eurosport, Kurdyukov was talking about Sundby, how unhappy he is, he can’t run in such weather, you see, his bronchi are collapsing. So I wanted to call and feel sorry for the poor man ... And he was sitting on the toilet, apparently from an overdose ...

Irbis, the most interesting thing about this was that.
That as soon as the "evil Russian hackers" discovered the whole essence of Wada and all these "disabled" and "crazy" and "mentally ill" were published. So Wada immediately started to "fight". although if it were not for this hack, then no one would have known this overdose-asthmatic, officially. and there was no punishment, even purely symbolic. Well, by the way, this is all from the same opera about German tea.)
Well, they are completely fools if they think that if there was really an asthmatic and really overdosed 6 or 9 times, he would have remained alive, but he would have gone to the other world long ago. Such a dose, yes under such physical activity. Any pulmonologist will confirm this. Not every healthy person can withstand such a dose. And then the Norwegian "disabled" ...
Even, don't know, perhaps the fate of Dale Oen does not frighten Sundby.

Dear RBs! When a normal person higher education and with a pure mind, reading your comments, it seems that we are 50 years behind the civilized world. What you write and discuss is the same as cutting down vineyards in Crimea in 1985, the same as completely destroying civil aviation in Russia in the 90s, the same as winning the Olympics in Sochi and right at the stadium both .. As did Mutko, Putin and a hedgehog with them. And then justify athletes who are puppets in the hands of functionaries from sports and politics. Be aware of what you write and discuss. The whole world laughs at our leaders, and we clap them again and blame the West!? Just look at how the West lives and how we ...

Along the way, Loginov is left with no other options but to say the famous Vedeninsky “Yes hu ... them!”, increase the gap, constantly be in prizes and regularly take samples))

Another jealous loser! Sanka, go ahead! Extinguish such schmucks on the ski track.

Valeria, in fairness, and Lars Berger, if he had been added in shooting, he would have been EEB the best biathlete in the world? If A. Volkov loses a minute and a half in a move - was Martin Fourcade the best biathlete in the world at the moment? And if Eberhard shoot like Fourcade, would Fourcade be the best? We have what we have. It is more substantive to argue about “what was”, and not about “what would have been”.
By the way, Eckhoff. In order to calmly be in the top 3 KM, in addition to shooting, it would be good to get sick even less often.

Shurminator, in fairness: all Norwegians have a good move, and the Tour was not the fastest. But she knew how to shoot and correctly distribute forces over a distance. If Eckhof had tightened up her shooting, she would have been in the top 3 of the KM for several years.

Tasha, about "train one and slow the other?" the example of Galina with Tura Berger is illustrative. She suffered a serious illness, and performed stronger than other Norwegians. Why didn't the same coaches train other Norwegians to have the same abilities? In healthy people they could not, in the sick Tura they could. Also a big question. You can't train everyone the same.
And for those who do not know what, it seems that nothing.
The only thing I am sure of is that now our team is one of the cleanest in the world (since the 1st McLaren report). Like no one checks us anymore.

Shurminator, I just gave you statistics so that you and others remember that there were guys in the national team and faster, but still forgot about it. Now, for example, the same Tsvetkov runs faster than Babikov (a clean move in the sprint) and Eliseev, while Babikov's move is much worse, but who is our hero? It's true, everyone knows this) And it's not even a matter of comparison, although it is appropriate, but I wondered how this is possible: to train one and slow down the others?
Well, the fact that Loginov is now under attack, one must ask hand-in: why? Did they know that in connection with the situation Loginov would be under pressure? Well, if you knew, then you have to keep the blow. And not only to take a hit, but to do something. And who does what, do you know?

Shuminator, we understand this. And I think it's just a "witch hunt" Just gave the command face. Here the mongrels were delighted that we can be poisoned

Analitik, if I'm a crook, then maybe Begu was talking about me, and not about Loginov?)

Galina, in-in. each side is right in its own way. And everyone can give their examples. both dopingists and just athletes who do not have a long competitive practice. This is how honest people become crooks)

Let's talk about Tura Berger. if my memory serves me right, after such a disease as cancer suddenly began to enchant? What's this? And then Marit Bjergen began to show crazy results on the track? Justina Kovalchik, by the way, you know how she congratulated Sergey Ustyugov on Facebook - “Finally, a healthy athlete won. She has been saying for a long time that it is impossible to compete with "sick" Norgs

Montenegrin, If you are talking about Rostovtsev, then I am very sorry for his departure. I consider him a very decent person. It seems to him that there were offers, but because of the existing disgustingness in TS, he refused. Specifically because of AIT in particular.

Tasha, you can still argue ad infinitum. Let's wait for Loginov at KM first (when they take it), and then we will compare it with other collections. Now it's all relative. Even as regarding the fact that Begyu in Nova lost his place at the KM in the sprint to the best in speed by 2 minutes, and to the same Loginov by one and a half in both sprints, but not by KIBU.
You don't need a martyr hero, but you don't need a leper either. Let him be just Sanya Loginov, an athlete who still has a lot to prove. Time will show.

Shurminator, maybe there is an error in comparing athletes of different ages, but .. J. Boe then compare with your teammates, he came so young and wiped his nose with everyone. So if you went to the analytics, you saw that only Malyshko from the national team kept Loginov’s speed (1.80 - Dima, 1.50 seconds Sasha), after the CPU for the next season both slowed down (3.00 - Dima, 3.60 - Sasha, the fastest in the team was Slepov-1.80sec) Of course, Loginov was enchanting in juniors, but the same Malyshko was not. But Latypov and Povarnitsyn were not latest athletes in juniors, however, something didn’t fly into the national team, opening the door boldly, but okay, they didn’t fly into the base, they somehow behave modestly in the reserve.
This is what I keep saying, that it is not necessary to make a hero-martyr out of Loginov. And when TS works in the team, not a single coach, mind you, but the headquarters, conditions are created, the analytical center is connected, the team is divided into groups, different methods are used, and suddenly it turns out that someone does not run, the other does not shoot, and Loginov from the Old they train with no one knows with whom, no one knows where, by what methods, but they run faster than the collections and shoot at the level. So I ask: who are these magic coaches, what kind of techniques did they use?

A Montenegrin, so last season before the World Cup, Zhenya was among the leaders in total shooting statistics, this season it’s worse, but physics is a little lame. Let's see what will happen next. As for Rostovtsev, he could help the girls, I agree here, but who will call him?

Natalya Anatolyevna, Yes, and there is no need for enemies, enough of such “specialists”! You tell them what the hack showed. that all the leading athletes of the west are on hard drugs with the permission of WADA. They need to put our people in jail for pharmacology. If they introduce a law, not everything is a scribe to sports in the Russian Federation. All top athletes they will become Czechs, Germans or Koreans, because they are not prosecuted for pharmacology there. Anna Frolina sends you big fiery greetings.

So you are actually talking about dopingists, or have I missed something? This hour, just talk about strong athletes. Stop juggling with words. You still don't miss the point. I think what I wanted to say is clear, but you can play the permutation of letters as much as you like.

And I understand that you are talking about strong dopingists. Well, let's see how they will help.

Shurminator, we kind of watched sprints together, only saw, apparently, different things. She said that she was running the Old Ones, so she was running. See the second sprint for yourself.
Name Time
1 Nicole Gontier 20:41.0 0.0
2 Yana Bondar 21:02.3 +21.3
3 Denise Herrmann 21:05.8 +24.8
4 Irina Starykh 21:09.2 +28.2
5 Svetlana Sleptsova 21:15.8 +34.8
6 Svetlana Mironova 21:29.9 +48.9
7 Anna Nikulina 21:40.1 +59.1
8 Colin Varsen 21:45.8 +1:04.8
9 Victoria Slivko 21:46.6 +1:05.6

Analitik, any words of any person can be twisted as you like. Including yours. Therefore, to be precise, I did not say “support for dopingists”, I said “Strong athletes have always been helped and will be helped.” Do you think Sunby, Yohaug, Galtin will go to jail?
It's like sports headlines. If you pull the right sentence out of context, then the meaning is already different.

Yes, please list these units. I think it includes everything European countries. Should we be proud that, until recently, we treated doping like some kind of Papuan.

The word “help” (about dopingists and the laws in relation to them) from the post for 10.01 you magically transformed into “do not prohibit”

Dear Shurminator, you are a sharpie, so I won’t argue with you, but poke your nose into your absurdities - how else.)

Tasha, about Garanichev.
He shouldn't have gone to Gross, it didn't do anything good.
It seems that Gross positions himself as a shooting coach, but where is the result?
Oh, there is no that person that I have on my profile picture. They threw out an outstanding shooting coach along with a pichler.

Analyst, name me at least one person who sits in these very countries?)
This is all liberal nonsense in our media.
We have recently adopted a law according to which you can actually put people in jail.
And in the West there are no such laws.
Just talking and shaking the air.

Analitik, almost everything? More like units. I'm just talking about the fact that international rules do not prohibit dopingists from training during a suspension. Well, there are no such rules - once you get caught, then don't train. That's when, either at the international level, or in our country, a law will come into force that dopingists must train at their own expense, then of course. And so we just act within the rules.

Boris, apparently so, alas.

Shurminator, what are these international doping support rules? What are fairy tales? Almost all countries are imprisoned for doping.

Tasha, in order to compare talents (their speed and shooting) even more constructively, you need to take periods when they were at the same age. It is incorrect to compare the performance of 21 logins and a 24 year old baby. For example, if we take shooting statistics, then at the age of 21, Volkov and Fourcade had 85%, and they improved it over time. At the age of 21, Loginov had 84. The difference, you see, is minimal.
At the age of 21, neither Garanichev nor Malyshko were at the KM, probably because they were not yet ready for competitions of this level.
As for the Old Ones, I don’t see any prohibitive speed in her. In pursuit, she lost to Virolainen for almost a minute. And the sprints on Kibu were not the best in terms of speed. Send her now to the World Cup, like all of ours, she will lose one and a half minutes in sprints.

About great coaches. There is such a hockey player - Mario Lemieux. He was forced to quit hockey for 3 years due to a back injury. And after 3 years he returned and reached his transcendental level. And others trained and played all these 3 years, but Lemieux never did.

Analitik, uh-huh, Fourcade mutant. Who else, maybe Sergey Ustyugov?
It seems that our fans do not know how to think.
Or maybe these "fans" deliberately arrange provocations in order to completely discredit the country?

Shurminator, in order to speak more constructively about talents, I propose to go to the analytics and compare the net speed (sprint) of Loginov and Malyshko for the period when Sasha appeared in the national team and the percentage of the stem. And the question immediately arises: where did Malyshko's talent go? I can ask one more question: where did Garanichev's talent go? Well, where is Volkov's shooting? So they did not stop training, unlike Loginov. Look at the analytics of the Podchufarova net move (sprint) for last season and current. Where did Podchufarova's move go? Podchufarova was on the CPU-no move, Starykh was training with someone and it is not known where, but she is running.
If such a wonderful coach (secret) appeared with us and was able to bring Loginov and Starykh to the starts, then why should he hide? Let him show up and talk about his methods.

Irbis, it’s useless, at least bring Zhvanetsky, at least Russian sayings, if the audience doesn’t see and doesn’t know the difference between vitamins and anabolics, you can’t prove anything, the fan is sure that he is a scammer and dopingist and that’s it

Nikolay P., If you are practically professionally involved in sports, would you also say that you can recover at the KM level by drinking tea with herbs?

Oh, Fedya Fedya.)
Well, what about that half-Austrian and half-German who was doped a long time ago by Neuner and Henkel, but that scandal was very quietly and quickly hushed up. Neuner Henkel wrote a piece of paper that “doping didn’t come, he himself came.” Well, this half-Austrian-half-German is now working at WADA.)
So I don’t see anything surprising with the Germans. They always do.)

Tasha, as they say, you can't drink away talent. Do you remember similar cases of disqualifications and speed dial forms by Kulizhnikov, Yuskov, Efimova. So there is nothing to be surprised. Strong athletes have always been helped and will be helped. As long as international rules allow it.
As for Latypov and Povarnitsyn, they have not even reached the level that Loginov showed when he was still a junior. Here's how they will come out, they will also enchant without a CPU, if it suddenly happens.

Eduard, pure nonsense, not a comment from a skisport.

I don’t like Zhvanetsky, but he’s right, “it’s pointless to argue with people who like lobster and pineapple, with people who haven’t eaten any of them”! All modern big world sports are spacious on pharmacology, whether you like it or not. I tell you all the common truth, all athletes use pharmacology in one way or another. Otherwise, they have nothing to do in sports, well, except for mass character. The simplest example. Twenty in biathlon, at the finish line, the athlete loses so much water that it would take at least a week to restore your balance. Since Fourcade, and especially Björn Dalin, bounce back overnight? So it is in any sport. otherwise it will be very unwatchable, because modern sport it's business first. That's who can say who and what uses for recovery. Nobody? This is the prerogative of WADA. But as for her honesty, we were convinced. It's easy to talk about things you just don't understand. Remember pharmacology and doping are two different things. So, Russians are punished for pharmacology, while Western athletes are not even suspended for doping. All conflicts in sports take place at the political level and have nothing to do with the fight against doping.

Elena, with us, Len, this is not a prison, but a promotion!

RozaR, correct me if I'm wrong, Zhzhenov was repressed as far as I remember? I haven't read it, but I've seen a movie about him. The analogy is inappropriate in my opinion. I would really like to leave the topic with Loginov, there is nothing special to talk about here. It's just hysteria. And, STUPID hysteria.

Tasha, well, the stump is clear that they did not stop training for a day, and certainly not at their own expense. And how should foreigners perceive it? I mostly blame Kasperovich for this whole story. He is a swindler, a liar and a thief. And you know where he belongs

Elena, but how will Loginov Kasperovich surrender, if he organized such training for him that Sasha performs at the level of collections. Somewhere he trained with someone. And who is the magician who trained Loginova and Starykh in such a form? The promising Latypov did not miss the CPU, but something does not work out for the guy so enchanting, Povarnitsyn slowed down beyond recognition, but Loginov succeeds. We keep saying we don't have coaches. Kasperovich knows all the secrets, but is silent: who are these coaches, what are the methods.

Guys and girls! Maybe enough to procrastinate this topic. I suggest reading an autobiography, for example, of Georgy Zhzhenov, who served his sentence and became for many one of the best domestic actors. Even in those days, people who served their sentences came out with a clear conscience.
But here, in general, everything is not so simple, and it is not known, in the end, Loginov and Co. will decide to tell after the end of their career what it was or will remain behind all 7 locks. Although it would be instructive for young athletes, it would be a very entertaining story for fans.

Elena, but no one knows why Yaroshenko decided to admit, while others for some reason decided to fight ...

Alas, yes, Lena, but the whole team is now disentangling this innocence. And how long this will continue is not known.

Analitik, they are all innocent. Only Yaroshenko found the courage to admit that he accepted. How can Loginov betray Kasperovich? So that later, for the rest of your life, “remove the snow in Siberia?”

Wow, is Loginov a mutant? People who have known him since the age of 14 why are you silent about this?

Ahhh, you think only a mutant can tear another mutant apart?

I'm completely confused what's going on with Loginov. Every fan has his own version. They agree on only one thing - not guilty and that's it.

I am inclined to believe that it was not in vain that they replaced Pichler - ENEMY ... doping with Gross - FRIEND ... doping. It was said that Gross was from the same "village" in Germany, where the doping laboratory is located and may have "friendly" connections. In Germany, after the scandal with Sachenbacher, his oxygen was cut off, but here we are “welcome”. We want to be smarter than others. We are waiting for new surprises.

Alexander Loginov is a Russian biathlete, on whom coaches and fans have high hopes. In 2013, the athlete - a member of the junior team - participated in the World Cup in Sochi, where he showed excellent results.

A bolt from the blue for Loginov's fans was the disqualification of the biathlete in the summer of 2015. But Alexander returned to the sport in November 2016 and proved that his victories are real. Today he- five-time champion Europe among juniors, bronze medalist of the 2017 World Championships and World Cup stages, Honored Master of Sports of Russia.

Childhood and youth

The future biathlon star flared up in Saratov in January 1992. Alexander Loginov did not dream of becoming an athlete as a child, but he was fond of sports. He gave preference to karate, in winter he went skiing with his friends.

The teenager thought about biathlon at the age of 13, then he entered the children's youth school Olympic reserve in his native city, where he fell into the hands of a talented coach Ekaterina Nikolaevna Khaliullina. A year later in Youth Olympic reserve, the guy was proud of the results: having fulfilled the standards, he became a candidate for master of sports in biathlon and cross-country skiing.

From now on sports biography Alexandra Loginova is rapidly gaining momentum. In the list of achievements of the young biathlete, prizes from regional and all-Russian competitions. Saratov was noticed by the coaches of the main team.

Loginov calls the Norwegian biathlon star an idol. Sasha was rooting for him in childhood, catching himself wanting to be like a legend. Like most colleagues, in his youth, the guy thought about a second profession that was not related to sports. He became a student at the local agricultural university, choosing the specialty of a manager.

Biathlon

In 2010, Alexander Loginov performed as part of the national team at the World Junior Championships in Sweden. For a beginner, the guy started perfectly: in the personal race he became fourth and fifth, coming very close to the podium. The 18-year-old biathlete managed to win back in the relay - he became the leader.

Soon Alexander became the king of the junior level. In 2011, in the Czech Nove Mesto, he took 2 third places in personal races, and was in the lead in the relay. In 2012 and 2013 he won individual races at the World Championship in Obertilliach, Austria, and at two European Championships - in Osrblie, Slovakia and Bansko, Bulgaria.

Half of the gold out of 18 medals won - this is the result of 6 tournaments in which Alexander Loginov participated. The biathlete surprisingly quickly, as for a junior, showed himself in the adult team.

In February 2013, at the World Cup in Holmenkollen, Norway, Loginov became the best among Russian colleagues, taking 5th position in the sprint race. A day later, in the pursuit race, Alexander won 3rd place. In March of the same year, the athlete took the 4th step in the 18 km mega-mass start, and won bronze in the 12.5 km pursuit.

Soon, an athlete from Samara was included in the relay at the Olympics in Sochi, where, thanks to Alexander Loginov, the Russian biathletes quartet won. Toward the end of 2013, the biathlete, along with, took the lead in the relay at the 3rd stage of the French World Cup in Annecy.

2014 was also a year of great success. Alexander Loginov took 2nd place at the 8th stage in Kontiolahti (Finland). This best result athlete in individual World Cup races. And in March of the same year, the biathlete repeated the result, taking the 2nd step in the pursuit.

However, the adult career, launched so successfully, was interrupted on the rise. According to the results of a doping test made on November 26, 2013, Alexander Loginov was suspended from competitions and training in November 2014. The athlete was disqualified until November 2016.

international union biathletes found in Alexander's sample a prohibited drug - erythropoietin. Loginov's sports results from the moment the sample was taken were invalidated.

In November 2016, the period of disqualification of Alexander Loginov ended, and the biathlete began training and competitions with increased zeal. The following year, at the January European Championships in the Polish city of Duszniki-Zdrój, he won the individual race and the pursuit race, received silver for the sprint race. In the mixed relay, Loginov won gold.

Biathletes Alexander Loginov and who returned to biathlon after being disqualified for doping became the main characters of the European Championship.

Another award awaited the athlete at the Biathlon World Championships in Austrian Hochfilzen. At the stage mixed relay biathlete in the squad Russian team, which also included, and Anton Shipulin, became a bronze medalist.

Personal life

The second half of Alexander Loginov understands her husband perfectly, because Margarita Yarostova is a biathlete herself. On her account, she won the junior championship of the country in summer biathlon. Margarita is also a candidate master of sports, she has 2 bronze medals at the European cross-country championship.

The athletes met when their career was just gaining momentum. Margarita is 3 years younger than Alexander. After several years, the romance of Yarostova and Loginov culminated in a trip to the registry office. At that time, Rita was 19, and Sasha was 22.

The wedding took place in the summer of 2014. For the sake of such an important event in life, Alexander Loginov was given a week off, because at that time the groom was expected in Novosibirsk, where shooting training took place.

The celebration took place in his native Saratov, and 80 relatives and friends of the couple were invited to it. The head coach of the Russian men's team Alexander Kasperovich and the first mentor of Margarita and Alexander Ekaterina Khaliullina came to the wedding.

Loginov's wife is from the Samara region, the town of Balakovo. I became interested in biathlon at the age of 11. Margarita, like her husband, graduated from the Saratov Agricultural University. The girl's hobby is driving a car.

The disqualification of Alexander Loginov also hit his personal life. There were rumors that the young couple divorced. At one time, the athlete and his wife did not comment on the information, but in 2017, in an interview, Alexander spoke about the termination of relations with Margarita. The divorce was painless, as the family of biathletes did not have time to have children.

Sports commentators and fans Russian biathlon now Alexander Loginov is tipped to be the leader in the national team in the light of the expected completion of his career by Anton Shipulin. The athlete's falls and misses are attributed to his excessive diligence.

Awards and achievements

• 2017 - bronze medal at the World Championships in Hochfilzen
• 2017 - 3 gold and silver medals at the European Championship in Duszniki-Zdrój
• 2018 - 2 silver and gold medal at the European Championships in Val Ridanna
• 2018 – 2 bronze medals at the World Cup stage in Pokljuka

An extremely unhealthy atmosphere has recently developed in world sports. The passions around the so-called "McLaren report", which accused dozens of leading Russian athletes of doping and other violations of the rules, have led athletes from other countries to consider themselves entitled to make statements to the Russians that border on rudeness.

French biathlete Aristide Begu reacted extremely painfully to the defeat from the Russian Alexandra Loginova at the next stage of the IBU Cup in the Italian city of Martell.

“Losing to the strongest - yes! Lose to a cheater - no!" - on Twitter.

At the stage in Martell, Loginov won the sprint and the pursuit race, and Begu took 8th and 6th places in these races, respectively.

The IBU Cup is, figuratively speaking, the second division of the world biathlon. Athletes who, by their results, do not fall into the main squad of the national teams participating in the World Cup participate in this tournament.

22-year-old Aristide Begu won the pursuit at the IBU Cup stage in Ridnaun, Italy in December 2016. After that, the athlete was included in the French team for the World Cup stage in Nove Mesto, but Begu did not succeed in successfully showing himself, and he returned to playing in the IBU Cup.

Alexander Loginov: the fall of Russian hope

However, here Begu has a new competitor - 24-year-old Russian Alexander Loginov. Rather, the competitor is old, but temporarily absent.

Loginov was considered one of the most talented young biathletes in Russia. He is a four-time World Junior Champion and a five-time European Junior Champion. Loginov made his debut as part of the main Russian national team in 2013, in December of the same year he won the relay race at the World Cup stage as part of the Russian national team. Loginov was part of the Russian national team at the 2014 Olympics, but did not shine, but at the World Cup stages after the Games he became second twice - in the sprint in Kontiolahti and in the pursuit race in Homenkollen.

Alexander Loginov (Russia) at a training session of the Russian national biathlon team before the start of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Photo: RIA Novosti / Ilya Pitalev

The fairy tale ended when the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) received information from the IBU about a suspicious doping result taken from an athlete out of competition on November 26, 2013. In November 2014, the IBU decided to re-analyze suspicious doping samples based on new methodologies. Five of these samples tested positive, including a Loginov sample taken in November 2013. The International Biathlon Union (IBU) informed the SBR about the detection in the athlete's sample of a prohibited drug - recombinant erythropoietin.

The Anti-Doping Committee decided to disqualify the suspended Alexander Loginov for two years from the date of re-analysis of the sample, which gave a positive result.

On July 10, 2015, by decision of the IBU, Loginov was disqualified until November 25, 2016. All results of the athlete, starting from the moment of sampling in November 2013, are invalidated.

The Russian "served", but the biathlon stars demand to punish him for life

It so happened that while the passions around the Russians were gaining momentum, Loginov was serving a sentence that ended just at the end of 2016. That is, at the moment when the question arose of the possible disqualification of the Russian biathlon team in full force.

Even in Russia, there were many sports journalists who felt that Loginov's return to the Russian national team was unethical. What can we say about representatives of other countries!

One of the leading biathletes in the world Johannes Be stated that Loginov should be disqualified for life. In an interview with the Norwegian media, Be said that he "does not want to see Loginov at the World Cup anymore."

Should we then be surprised at the statements of Aristide Begu?

To put it bluntly, the situation is ugly. On the one hand, the anger of athletes who consider themselves "clean" from doping is understandable. On the other hand, Loginov, as they say, "served his time", and double punishment for the same sin is considered nonsense by lawyers around the world.

Loginov was attacked not only by Be, but also by senior comrade Aristide Begu, the leader of the World Cup Martin Fourcade. Back in mid-December 2016, he wrote on the social network about his dissatisfaction with the fact that an athlete who was caught doping two years ago was competing at the IBU Cup.

Fourcade has a lot of fans in Russia, who then responded to the idol in unflattering tones. So much so that Fourcade himself decided to explain himself to them in a special address. “Unfortunately, one Russian athlete who competed today in the IBU Cup was caught doping (EPO) only 2 years ago. I sincerely believe that the managers and coaches of the Russian Biathlon Federation are sending the wrong signal by allowing him to compete again during this troubled time. My doping intolerance has never been and never will be focused on Russia. I adhered to the same position in relation to the doping scandals that were in Germany, Norway, Ukraine, Lithuania and also in France, ”Fourcade explained.

“I don’t trust anyone in this team anymore”

Extremely harsh statements are heard not only against Loginov. The wave raised by the “McLaren report”, in which the names of about three dozen appear Russian biathletes, made talkative, for example, a previously very modest Czech Gabriela Koukalova.

“I don’t trust anyone in this team, sorry,” the athlete said, speaking about the Russian team in an interview with the Championship.com portal. - When people and teams do not respect the international anti-doping rules, they should not compete with us. It’s hard for me to explain this in English, but we should also talk about a team in which too many athletes were caught doping.” At the same time, the biathlete honestly admitted that she did not know what specific Russian athletes took doping and whether there is evidence of their guilt.

As you can see, the persecution of Russians is now in vogue, and is it worth it to blame the young Frenchman Begue that he succumbed to the general mood.

Only one thing is not clear - what should Alexander Loginov do? Voluntarily renounce biathlon? Go to a monastery? To bequeath the last victories to the frustrated Aristide Begu? Indeed, at the moment, having served his sentence, the athlete started everything from scratch, and there are no doubts about the honesty of his current victories, at least not yet. Even if such a measure as a lifelong suspension from biathlon for the first violation of anti-doping rules is introduced now, it cannot apply to Loginov, since the law does not have retroactive effect.

However, the current times in sports are not a story about the law, but about the Inquisition. And the role of the inquisitor in relation to the Russians is ready to try on all and sundry.

If not for the disqualification, today Loginov would have become one of the best. Not me, the famous biathlete and coach Alexander Privalov says this. Yes, we can see for ourselves - at the European Championships, the athlete won three gold and one silver medals. (Irina Starykh, who also returned after punishment, three gold and one bronze).

Then, when the prospects of the same Loginov seemed limitless and he was called the “joker” of the national team on the eve of the Olympic Games, I asked at one of the stages of the World Cup what could stop him in his unstoppable movement forward? It is no coincidence that he was called the most gifted of the young. “So far, nothing. I do what I like."

"Bye" quickly flew off to the side, and "nothing" turned into EPO.

November 26, 2013 - a few days before the start of the Olympic season, Alexander Loginov passed the test. The test raised doubts, it was decided to check it with a new method later. Exactly one year later, reanalysis showed a positive result for recombinant erythropoietin. On July 10, 2015, the athlete received a disqualification until the end of November 2016, two years were deducted from the moment the sample was rechecked.

Loginov's punishment was perceived by many in Russia with great chagrin. Good guy. How did you get in? Why did he let this happen? Trusting who? What brute (mild variant of resentment) gave him the dope? (All these questions also apply to the punishment of Irina Starykh).

Silent and silent Sasha Loginov. He did not say anything and does not say anything. He carried some nonsense about some kind of treatment, which caused only laughter and evil, impotent irony. Not the world champion Tyson Gay, in short, turned out to be. I would have handed over a hand that gives doping, like a world champion - my own coach, you see, and also received only a year of disqualification.

I couldn't. Or upbringing did not allow, or some other reasons. But by doing so, he did not knock out the trump cards from the hands of the especially irreconcilable. The world doesn't care about his reasons for not telling the truth.

And it is impossible not to think: even if we were to return to the past even now and punish those responsible for the disqualification of Loginov and Starykh, that would be right. They punished themselves. The matter is not new for our biathlon, it has been dragging on for a long time. Irina Starykh and Ekaterina Yuryeva passed positive tests just for EPO, and before them - Dmitry Yaroshenko and Albina Akhatova. True, those samples “fired” immediately, and in the case of Loginov there was a delay of a year. Maybe, loud scandal succeed. And there are many names.

And it still rumbles. So I want to say: sooner or later. But “early” will no longer work, in any case, it’s too late, but it will rumble.

We are silent, we are silent again. And what do we do? Again we throw Loginov on the embrasure. It is a shame for him to slurp with a full spoon, to look into the eyes of rival accusers. He - to listen to all these arguments about the deceiver. And to run - to him.

And can we tell how it was, who is to blame, partly freeing Loginov and Starykh from harsh pressure, without losing in such a tense for sports Russia even more time? No guarantees.

The apotheosis of reasoning on the topic - to be or not to be Loginov and Starykh at the heart of the World Cup - "congratulations" to Loginov on his 25th birthday from Martin Fourcade. In the comments to the congratulations from the RRF and listing the achievements of Alexander at the starts, the amazing biathlete Fourcade wrote: “And he received a two-year disqualification for EPO. Don't forget about one of his main trophies!".

Martin Fourcade must have read a lot of comments. Apparently, those who wrote to him “in the return line” hit the target, the biathlete deleted his own words the next day. Not the first, however, words addressed to Loginov, probably, and not the last. After all, as soon as Alexander came out of disqualification, the Frenchman could no longer remain silent. “Unfortunately, one Russian athlete who competed in the IBU Cup was caught doping only 2 years ago. I sincerely believe that managers and coaches Russian Federation biathlon send the wrong signal, allowing him to compete again at this troubled time.”

Yes, it couldn't be more problematic. Of course, IBU President Besseberg said: all athletes have the same rights - if the punished have served their disqualification, they have the right to compete. But what awaits the athletes who have served their sentences if they appear at the starts of the World Cup is probably not from a positive range of emotions.

Under pressure from those same biathletes with active citizenship, the International Biathlon Union decided to hold an extraordinary congress to adopt new anti-doping rules before the 2017 World Championships. It will be held on February 8 in Hochfilzen, Austria, and will once again discuss the issue of doping for possible decision-making before the World Cup. 170 biathletes who have signed an appeal to the IBU demanding further tightening of anti-doping rules intend to receive a response to it. The word "boycott" is in the air of biathlon.

And on February 9, the biathlon world championship begins. Go last hours team building. The team needs old and logins. And they deserved the World Cup according to the sports selection principle. What to do? Our sporting principle of selection will not be respected by rivals who actively write and demand. Punish Loginov and Starykh again?

There is a right to make a mistake. At least, so far in sports - such rules may soon prohibit even those who stumble once to perform soon. But there should be no right to set up one's own. Alexander Loginov and Irina Starykh convincingly won the European Championship. Would be happy. And in your hearts you think - it would be better to run average this year, not shine. True, next year is the Olympic year. And so it turns out, wherever you poke, we have holes everywhere. Shut up - fate.

After Loginov's three victories in the IBU Cup in a row, one involuntarily had to think: has the athlete outgrown the limits of these competitions? And what could be his results if he happened to run not in the reserve team, but at the World Cup stages? When we met Alexander at a training camp in Arber, he responded to both of these questions calmly.

- It seems to me that for an athlete of my level, the main thing is to develop. And you can develop not only at the World Cup. I do not attach much importance to these three victories. Perhaps I was just a little more lucky than my opponents. As we say, the wind blew at the right time in the back.

- So you still don’t feel that victories are a natural result of the work done?

- I have last year didn't go too smoothly. At the very beginning of January, he broke his arm - he fell unsuccessfully in training. I was in a cast for two and a half months, because the fracture of the wrist turned out to be very complicated - with a displacement. Also partly lucky: the bones were well set, and the operation was not needed. But it took a long time to develop the brush. Until now, the hand is sometimes not my own. In the summer, I couldn’t even lie down on the rug normally - it was painful to lean on. Before the injury, I didn’t even think about how many movements I make with a brush. And here I constantly caught myself on the fact that I could not do my usual work in full. He began to do strength work only in May, and the hand constantly made itself felt. Therefore, I did not expect too much that after such a long break, the results would immediately turn out to be high.

- What did you expect?

- Yes, I can’t say that I had any specific plans at all. Had. First of all, return to its original form.

- Now can you say that you have returned, or do you not think so?

- There are still too many starts to draw any conclusions. So far, everything is going well, but we'll see.

YOU DONT HAVE TO TALK ABOUT LUCK

- You were not called to the World Cup either after two victories in Martell in the sprint and pursuit, or after winning the "twenty" in Arber. In other words, it may well be that you have to run in the reserve team for the rest of the season. Are you mentally ready for this?

- For myself, I decided a long time ago: no matter how the situation develops, my job is to do my job.

– And no ambition to return for more high level?

- When I just started performing after the disqualification, and I had my first start at the very beginning of December in Uvat, I planned to prepare for the European Championship. This is what it's all about now. The European Championship is an important start for me, which I have to work out as well as possible. And now I'm so focused on this goal that I don't think about anything else at all.

- So, I was wrong, thinking that any biathlete who managed to feel what the World Cup is and achieved high results there, involuntarily begins to perceive IBU Cup as a link.

- I didn’t start much at the World Cup. The highest results were at the stages in Kontiolahti and Holmenkollen, but there I was just lucky: both tracks suit me very well. That's probably why he ran so well there.

- What do you mean fit?

- I am an oversized athlete, light. Now I have also lost a lot of weight compared to the conditions that were before. I like trails with a lot of climbs. High-speed flat sections are more difficult to run.

- You have already repeated the word "lucky" several times. In general, do you consider yourself lucky in relation to racing?

- In what sense?

- Well, you know, there are biathletes who always pass all the dimensions. But the opposite happens.

- Well, what kind of luck could one talk about in the same Martell, where I stood for almost two minutes at the shooting standing? Then I reviewed the video, most of the gusts of wind during the race lasted for 20-30 seconds. I got into a rush that did not stop for three minutes. Even my back hurt while standing at the turn. I had to throw off the rifle in order to at least slightly remove the tension from the muscles. And the snow covered almost knee-deep.

ONCE EARNED 13 PENALTY LAPS

- Do you believe that this season you will be lucky to get to the world championship?

– To be completely honest, I don’t think I’m in my current state ready for those speeds required by the World Cup. In any case, it's definitely too early to talk about this before I perform at the European Championships. If I don't get to Hochfilzen, I won't be upset. At least that's how it seems to me now. Yes, and there is no reason not to trust coaching decisions. If they tell me that I have not grown up to the World Cup yet, it means that it is so. And besides, I really want to become a European champion. After all, at the adult level I don’t have any regalia at all, even from the national championships - only junior victories.

- In your career, have there ever been situations when you were removed from races that you really wanted to run?

Yes, as a teenager. When in 2011 I first won the sprint on the Izhevsk Rifle and theoretically could qualify for a place in the main team, Alexander Kasperovich, who then led junior team, explained that it was too early for me to start among adults. The same thing happened a season later, when I became second in the sprint at the Izhevsk Rifle. That is, they led me to an adult career very smoothly.

Do you have any favorite distances?

- I wouldn't say. I treat every race equally responsibly. Although by nature I'm more of a stayer.

- With your stayer character, you probably shouldn't like relay races.

On the contrary, I love it. It's just that relay races are harder to run, the degree of responsibility is too great. You are responsible not only for your result, but for the overall result. It is no coincidence that in relay races people sometimes spin five penalty loops.

- I remember you also had a chance to run a circle at the World Cup stage in Sochi in 2013. But that didn't stop him from winning.

- One circle is nonsense. I remember when I came to my very first biathlon competitions in Yekaterinburg for the youth championship of Russia, I earned as many as 13 penalty loops in the pursuit race. In the sprint, my record is eight.

IT IS wiser NOT TO GUESS AND NOT COUNT ON ANYTHING

“I didn’t think it was so difficult for you to learn to shoot.

- Well, I came to biathlon with the psychology of a skier: I stood at the start - and rush headlong, as much as I have enough strength. At that time, I did not realize at all that shooting is no less important component than running. I thought that there would be no problems at all in this regard - just think, the difficulty is great - to close five targets. It turned out to be great.

- And what is the most significant difference between racing and biathlon for you? In the application of physical effort, or emotionally?

- You know, one of my acquaintances from cross-country skiing once said that everything is much simpler in skiing: as soon as you hit from the start, you run as long as you have enough strength. In biathlon, it is impossible to calculate how to decompose the forces so that they are enough for the entire distance. I myself never thought about it, but perhaps there is some truth in such an assessment.

- Long hard work, I suppose, how does a former skier not scare you?

- No. Even when I was skiing, my relationship with sprints was far from being the best, but I ran the “thirty” classics quite well.

Have you ever run 50 kilometers?

I don't even remember, to be honest. It seems not. I wanted to somehow run this distance in Saratov, but did not have time to arrive at the start. But I hope to fix it soon.

- In what way? Are you planning to start combining biathlon performances with skiing?

– No, we are not talking about this. From a competitive point of view, I understand perfectly well that I can hardly compete with skiers in speed: after all ski race and biathlon too different types. I just really want to run a marathon. It is not so important even what kind of competition it will be. Likewise, I wish I could run at least half an Ironman someday to try my best. Well, so that later in old age you don’t remember that you wanted something and didn’t do it when you had the opportunity.

- Would you like to go to Korea for the pre-Olympic week?

- Didn't think about it. We have such a sport that it is more reasonable not to think of anything at all and not to count on anything. Of course, it would be better to know in advance what competitions you are participating in, and purposefully prepare for them. But is there a random factor? Getting ready, getting ready, and then you fell and broke your arm. And what?

- Suppose you broke your arm not during the period of competitive training, but when you were serving a two-year disqualification.

- Well, yes. It's back to the question of whether I'm lucky.

How ready are you to talk about that period of your life?

- Not ready. All this is still too hard and painful. Of course, I thought many times while serving a suspension, how could this even happen to me? Haven't found an answer yet. I can say one thing: this whole story cost me two years of my life. I have served my sentence and I want to start from scratch.