The Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) disclosed details of the case of the use of doping by the curler of Alexander Krushelnytsky. The sportsman passed the first test on February 12 in Pyeongchang. In his blood, 8069 ng / ml meldonia. This concentration is a record. The next day, Alexander submitted a second analysis, which also showed the presence of a prohibited substance in the body - 5721 ng / ml, according to the court website. For example, in tennis player Maria Sharapova, who served a disqualification, meldonia was 10 times less - 890 ng / ml. At the same time, skater Pavel Kulizhnikov, who was suspended from the Games, was only 0.7 ng / ml of substance. This amount of doping in Krushelnytsky raises even more questions, since the specificity of curling does not require meldonia, especially in such quantities. For the entire history of observations, the maximum value of this substance was 1428 ng / ml. The CAS said that the athlete still can fully justify.

"The athlete in the course of further disciplinary proceedings reserves the right to seek a reduction in disqualification or full justification in this case, referring to the principle of absence of guilt or negligence," reads the message. The doping test of the curler Alexander Krushelnytsky gave a positive result for the presence in the body meldonia. This drug is on the list of banned from January 1, 2016. Krushelnytsky and his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova, who won the bronze medal at the Olympics in the double mix, were deprived of the medals by the decision of the Sports Arbitration Court.