“We were just set up to get the maximum disqualification.” Bryzgalova on Krushelnitsky’s doping test

Double World Curling Champion Anastasia Bryzgalova in an interview with , she said that his wife Alexander Krushelnitsky with whom she associated, was framed in order to disqualify him and impose the maximum sentence.

At the Pyeongchang Olympics, Bryzgalova and Krushelnitsky won bronze medals in the mixed doubles competition, but were stripped of them due to meldonium found in Krushelnitsky’s sample. Alexander’s four-year suspension expired in February 2022, after which he resumed his career. Bryzgalova ended her career as an athlete in 2020 and switched to training with the national team.

– How does it feel to watch when a loved one finds themselves without a favorite object?

– Difficult. I would have been more comfortable with this situation. For Sasha, sport is the most important thing. He’s been involved in sports all his life, that’s where he should be. I can’t imagine him in any other job wearing a tie in the office. It’s not about Sasha at all. I can adapt to any activity. There is no work here, I will go elsewhere. And for Sasha, sport is what he should do. When he was deprived of it, the person was simply lost.

– Do you still have a grudge against the situation and those people who made the decision to disqualify your husband? That they gave four years for the harmless meldonium and its lower content in the sample.

– And what is there to offend, everything was clear. We understood that, most likely, everything goes to such a punishment. We were simply framed in order to be disqualified and disqualified to the maximum. We understood first that they wouldn’t say to us: “Okay, okay, I got caught for the first time, we’ll give it a little time, we won’t be so cruel to you.” We accepted what we had,” Bryzgalova told .