The Sports Arbitration Court (CAS) has published new information on the doping case of the Russian curler Alexander Krushelnytsky.

It is reported that in the athlete's doping test, 8069 ng / ml meldonium.

And in the trial, which Krushelnytskyi passed the next day, the concentration of the forbidden substance was 5721 ng / ml.

This indicator is a record. The maximum registered concentration of meldonia in athletes over the past two years is 1428 ng / ml.

For example, Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who served a 15-month disqualification, found a concentration of 890 ng / ml of substance.

Note that meldonium is forbidden to be used by athletes since January 2016.

Krushelnytsky's team was assured that meldonia could not be and even suspect that someone had poured his curler.

At the Olympics in 2018 in Pyeongchang Krushelnytsky won the "bronze" in a competition of mixed duets with his wife Anastasia Brizgalova.