- The whole world was struck by the fact that WADA allowed (through a therapeutic exception) the use of drugs. What reforms should be done to prevent this from happening in the future?

- It's simple. With the reform of WADA, it is necessary to categorically ban all forms of drugs in sports, including soft ones, at any stage of sports training, which will not only neutralize the advantages of athletes at the competitive stage, but also allow sport and athletes to be personified as active fighters against the spread of drugs. This is especially true for countries where soft drugs are legalized.

- The case with meldonium showed that an innocent drug can easily become sanctioned. What can be proposed to eradicate this in the future?

- To do this, the WADA Prohibited List Development Committee is obliged to rely on the opinion of the world's leading pharmacologists when determining the advisability of adding a drug to the Prohibited List. This will make it possible to prevent the sanctioned introduction of drugs with unproven effectiveness in sports into the prohibited list.

- But then it will delay the procedure and increase the cost of introducing stimulants into the WADA prohibited list.

- Of course, this is true, but today the entire anti-doping system can switch to a completely new laboratory diagnostic system, when any chemical compound can be verified 3-5 years after its use. Such developments already exist and are used in science. Their implementation will give rise to a whole list of innovations, show the senselessness of in-competition and out-of-competition doping control, and much more. Also, this principle will allow to approve a new WADA rule — the use of permitted drugs in sports. This rule would require any sporting nation to align WADA's updated Prohibited Substance List annually with its country's annually updated national drug registries. Thus, any drug that is not included in the list of permitted drugs will automatically be considered doping. On the one hand, this will make it easier for doctors to determine the status of a particular drug in relation to the "Prohibited List" and find an adequate alternative. On the other hand, and this is the most important, to eliminate the advantage of a sports power with a highly developed pharmacological science in the use of the latest stimulants that have not managed to enter the banned list and at the same time not registered in this country. In addition, the updated lists of registered drugs will accelerate the identification of new registered drugs for their early scientific study in terms of a stimulating effect on athletic performance.