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Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs

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06:28 AM ET 12.30 | Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs for months before his sudden death during a game in Russia, federal investigators said Monday in Moscow. Analysis of blood and urine samples in the wake of Cherepanov's Oct. 13 death during a Continental Hockey League (KHL) game revealed the presence of illicit substances, according to a statement from the Russian federal Investigative Committee. A committee spokesman in Moscow would give no further details of what substances were found. "(In) the blood and urine of Alexei Cherepanov traces of alcohol and drugs were found, but the chemical analysis suggests that for a few months he had been doping," Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee, told the Russian news service Vesti. The committee also said that Cherepanov suffered from myocarditis, a condition in which not enough blood travels to the heart and one Markin said Cherepanov had carried for roughly a year prior to his death. It said Cherepanov should not have been playing professional hockey, and that the team's medical staff may face legal ramifications.

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