The bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Phenchkhan, Alexander Krushelnytsky, had a positive test of B on meldonium. Thus, over the curler is threatened with disqualification and loss of the award. A source familiar with the situation told journalists about the positive result of the repeated doping test, the "Championship".
The samples were analyzed in the anti-doping laboratory in Seoul. Officially, the results of sample B have not yet been reported. It has already been opened, but the result will be announced only this evening or tomorrow morning, noted the press attache of the team "Olympic athletes from Russia" Konstantin Vybornov. Earlier, the Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) reported that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent an inquiry to the organization to consider the anti-doping case of Krushelnytsky. According to the publication of the Insidethegames, hearings in the CAS are scheduled for tomorrow, February 20. Sports experts and other athletes do not believe that Krushelnytsky could use doping shortly before the tournament. First of all, because there is no point in this. "Tell me, why in curling meldonia? To rub longer? In this sport play a role of feeling and tactics. There is no super load. I do not know what's going on. I do not want to think about the bad, I hope this is some kind of mistake. Logically, meldonia can be used in any other sport, but not in curling. I do not rule out that this is some kind of provocation. But she's ridiculous. Well, put or sprinkle in another kind of sport, but not here.. Somehow it does not dock and does not fit, "said Oleg Saitov, two-time Olympic champion in boxing, chairman of the standing committee on sport, tourism and youth policy of the regional Duma of Sakhalin.. The same opinion is held by the Dutch team's curling player, Madeleine Dupont. "I was shocked: how can this happen? I'm sure most people thought like me: why do they need dope? What is the use of it? I do not even know why you can use doping in curling. To increase strength or something like that? " - she said. Meanwhile, there were those who hastened to accuse our athletes of all sins. "I was primarily against the performance of the Russian national team at the Olympics. They did not need to be admitted to the Games in Pyeongchang, "- said, commenting on the incident with Krushelnytsky, IOC member, former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency Richard Pound. And the Swiss curling girl Silvana Tirinconi stated:.
"It's not true that we do not need muscles. We must be in shape. Each of us trains five times a week and goes to the gym. This can help. Krushelnytsky?.
I am surprised. Such situations should not occur in curling or in any other sport ". At the Games-2018 Krushelnytsky together with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova won a bronze medal in the double mix. It was Russia's first Olympic award in history in curling. If Krushelnitsky is disqualified, the pair will lose the medal. Bronze will transfer to the Norwegian team.
On the eve it became known that the dope test A on meldonia gave a positive result. Krushelnytsky confirmed that he was using this drug, but refused it at the end of 2015.. , when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recognized it as prohibited. According to one version, meldonia could be poured into Krushelnytsky's meal at the training of the Russian curling team in Japan shortly before the Olympics. Russian athletes, however, do not believe that one of the teammates could go for such a.