The mystery of 'pregnancy doping': the Russian gymnastics lie that deceived the world for 30 years and has now been solved

On November 23, 1994, a broadcast by the French news channel France 2 featured testimony from a purported former Russian gymnast named Olga Kovalenko, alleging that athletes utilized pregnancy to bypass doping controls. This claim centered around what has been described as a thirty-year deception in Russian gymnastics.

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