Winter Olympics 2018 Russian curler banished from Winter Olympics after failed drug test Alexander Krushelnitsky tests positive for meldoniumSet to be stripped of mixed curling bronze, won with wife Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky practises ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Photograph: Aaron Favila/APThe Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been formally charged with a doping offence by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium. Read moreBut as Krushelnitsky was leaving the Winter Olympics on Monday morning his Olympic Athletes of Russia team-mates were insisting that he was innocent. Russian curling federation president Dmitry Svishchev said Russian curlers had been tested on 22 January before flying out to South Korea and the tests were negative. I don’t know,” Andrei Sozin, the Russian curling federation vice-president, told Komsomolskaya Pravda, a pro-Kremlin newspaper.

Source: The Guardian February 19, 2018 06:54 UTC