Exclusive makes bizarre claim about Mudryk doping test which isn’t likely to save him | OneFootball

The bombshell news around Chelsea in the last week has been around a player who wasn’t even getting in the team – winger Mykhailo Mudryk failed a doping test, and could face serious punishment including a ban, depending on the results of further tests.

We’re still in the dark over what exactly Mudryk has tested positive for, and the answer to that question will go a long way to determining how serious the punishment is. But assuming it’s a performance enhancing substance rather than a recreational one, we could be looking at a historic ban for the Premier League.

TeamTalk today have an exclusive which claims to know from sources close to Mudryk that the Ukraine star “believes he is innocent and will be proven so.” It adds that Chelsea believe their player that he’s not done anything wrong – at least not deliberately.

Comparing Mudryk’s issues with those suffered by top tennis players in recent times, the winger’s camp claim that the positive result has come from something he took accidentally, and think the B sample will exonerate him.

Mudryk’s B sample won’t save him if winger took banned substance

Mykhailo Mudryk looks pensive in a warmup. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

There’s a problem with that theory – and one that perhaps reveals that the source here (or perhaps TeamTalk themselves) don’t really know what they’re talking about.

As far as we’re aware, the B sample is taken at the same time as the A sample. Its purpose is to rule out any errors in the testing procedure. So even if Mudryk thinks the substance was in some food he ingested, the result will be the same in both samples. The case will then depend on him proving that he was unaware he was taking the banned chemical – and even then, that’s only likely to reduce a ban, not quash it entirely.