Mudryk

Mykhailo Mudryk doping test ‘a dagger to the heart of Ukrainian football’

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It was only six months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when, on a balmy September evening in eastern Germany, I came across Mykhailo Mudryk shortly after midnight. This was September 2022 and Mudryk was by then an emerging talent for the Ukrainian champions, Shakhtar Donetsk. He scored and was the team’s major attacking threat in … Read more

What is Meldonium? Mykhailo Mudryk tests positive for banned drug that Maria Sharapova ‘had to Google’

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Chelsea’s Mykhailo Mudryk has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse finding in a drugs test. The Blues winger has tested positive for Meldonium, a banned metabolic substance similar to insulin, used to enhance endurance. 6 Mudryk recorded a positive drugs test for the substanceCredit: Getty His failed test was discovered after a routine urine … Read more