Olympics: OAR curler's positive test for banned substance confirmed

A curling bronze medalist from the Olympic Athlete from Russia team was confirmed to have tested positive for the banned substance meldonium, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced a day earlier that it has opened a doping case on mixed doubles curler Aleksandr Krushelnitckii.The preliminary B sample examined on Monday returned a positive result, the same finding as from the A sample which initially detected traces of meldonium, a drug that increases blood flow to allow for improved aerobic capacity, the source said.The breach could ha…READ FULL ARTICLE