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Russian Curling Bronze Medalist Aleksandr Krushelnitckii<em></em> Busted For Doping<em></em>The Court of Arbitration for Sport says Russian curler Aleksandr Krushelnitckii, who with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova claimed bronze in mixed doubles last week in Pyeongchang, is formally charged with doping after his B-sample tested positive for meldonium....

I Doped Like Maria Sharapova And It Was Actually Pretty GreatI have some personal news I’d like to share: I’m doping. With performance-enhancing drugs, even. The same kind that got tennis star Maria Sharapova banned from the professional tour for 15 months, and the reason she needs tournaments like the U.S. Open—which starts today in New York—to offer her wil...

WADA, Which Fucks Up Many Things, Admits It Fucked Up On MeldoniumA few months and more than a hundred athlete suspensions into WADA’s ban of Meldonium, the World Anti-Doping Agency now admits that it has no clue how long Meldonium stays in a person’s system, and it may have erroneously punished athletes who stopped taking the drug before it was illegal. Because W...

Reports: Entire Russian U18 Hockey Team Replaced Before World Championships Due To Failed Drug Tests

The IIHF World U18 Championships begin in Grand Forks, N.D., next week, and the Russian team was set to fly out tomorrow. Today it was revealed that the head coach has been fired and the entire roster will be replaced because too many players tested positive for the recently banned substance Meldoni...

Maria Sharapova Claims She Didn't Click The Link That Would Have Told Her Her Drug Was Banned

World No. 7 Maria Sharapova could face a ban as long as four years from the sport (though likely much shorter) for testing positive for meldonium, long one of athletes’ favorite legal substances before it made its way onto the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list on Jan 1. If her explanation is to...