Mudryk faces up to 4-year ban after doping charge

Mykhailo Mudryk is facing a imaginable prohibition of up to 4 years aft the Football Association charged the Chelsea winger with a doping offence.

The 24-year-old was provisionally suspended successful December having tested affirmative for a performance-enhancing substance named meldonium.

The Blues were awaiting the results of a 'B' illustration trial to enactment oregon contradict the archetypal 'A' results and the FA announced connected Wednesday that the Ukrainian winger present faces imaginable further punishment.

"We tin corroborate that Mykhailo Mudryk has been charged with Anti-Doping Rule Violations alleging the beingness and/or usage of a prohibited substance, successful presumption of Regulations 3 and 4 of The FA's Anti-Doping Regulations," said the FA successful a statement. "As this is an ongoing case, we are not successful a presumption to remark further astatine this time."

Chelsea declined to remark connected the FA's latest action. Guidelines suggest Mudryk could present look a lengthy suspension contempt the subordinate antecedently denying knowingly breaking immoderate rules.

Sources person told ESPN that the cause was apt administered portion helium was extracurricular of the United Kingdom.

Shortly aft his archetypal suspension became nationalist cognition successful December, Mudryk wrote connected Instagram that "this has travel arsenic a implicit daze arsenic I person ne'er knowingly utilized immoderate banned substances oregon breached immoderate rules, and americium moving intimately with my squad to analyse however this could person happened.

"I cognize that I person not done thing incorrect and stay hopeful that I volition beryllium backmost connected the transportation soon. I cannot accidental immoderate much present owed to the confidentiality of the process, but I volition arsenic soon arsenic I can."