Russian curler banned 4 years in Olympic doping case

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian curling medalist Alexander Krushelnitsky has been banned for four years in a doping case which cost Russia the right to fly its flag at the Winter Olympic closing ceremony this year.
Krushelnitsky won the bronze medal in mixed doubles with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova, but they were stripped of the result after he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium.
Krushelnitsky argued that he was spiked with meldonium by an unnamed third party but the