LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Mykhailo Mudryk of Ukraine; most expensive player In world soccer, if a player loses his appeal against a four-year ban for doping, he risks not being able to play in the next European Championship.
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According to the court, both sides have exchanged written submissions and a hearing has not yet been scheduled.
FA announced Mudriku in June last year. formally indicted “Anti-Doping Rule Violation Alleging the Presence and/or Use of a Prohibited Substance.” The exact substances contained have not been officially confirmed.
Mudryk said in December 2024: i didn’t do anything wrong He has not played since after it was confirmed that he provided a drug test sample containing banned substances.
Mudryk has not commented on the incident since then. He has been posting videos of himself training on social media in recent months. Watched it with Chelsea fans Last year when Chelsea won the Conference League final in Poland.
Under the World Anti-Doping Agency’s rules that apply to multiple Olympic sports, the starting point for sanctions in a typical first-time doping case is a four-year ban.
This period is often shortened to mitigate the situation, such as if the athlete ingested a contaminated supplement or made a mistake with the medication, or if the athlete admitted the violation early on.
Doping sanctions normally begin retroactively from the date of the athlete’s first provisional suspension, pending a full hearing. of next european championship It is scheduled to be held jointly by the UK and Ireland in the summer of 2028.
Mudryk missed Ukraine’s recent World Cup qualifying campaign. Ukraine failed to qualify as runner-up. lose to sweden in the playoffs in March.
Mudryk was one of the most sought-after players in Europe when he was signed from Shakhtar Donetsk after competing for interest from Chelsea’s London rivals Arsenal.
The 25-year-old from Ukraine has since scored 10 goals in 73 games for Chelsea, but most of those appearances have come from the bench, and even before the doping scandal, his form at the club was widely regarded as underwhelming.
Chelsea gave Mudryk an eight-and-a-half year contract, an unusually long contract in modern football. It is scheduled to be implemented until 2031.
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