US Curling Team Blasts Kirstie Alley for Calling Sport Boring

The U.S. Olympics curling team is blasting actress Kirstie Alley for calling the sport 'boring' on [...]

By Stephen Andrew

The U.S. Olympics curling team is blasting actress Kirstie Alley for calling the sport "boring" on Twitter.

In a recent tweet, Alley wrote, "Im not trying to be mean but...... Curling is boring."

The 2018 U.S. Men's Olympic Curling Team just so happened to see her tweet and fired back, "We're not trying to be mean either but your movies weren't exactly riveting theater Kirstie."

The response has garnered the team quite a lot of praise, with one person quipping, "Congratulations - you just won 'Tweet of the Olympics.' "

The U.S. Men's Olympic Curlers are not the only Olympic Curlers to make headlines at the 2018 Winter Games, as it was recently reported that a Russian Olympic athlete who recently won a medal in curling is currently under investigation after failing a drug test.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport released a statement that revealed it had "initiated a procedure involving the athlete Aleksandr Krushelnitckii," according to Buzzfeed.

Krushelnitckii competed at the 2018 Winter games with his wife, Anastasia Bryzgalova, in the mixed curling doubles. The couple won the bronze medal.

It's been reported that Krushelnitckii tested positive for meldonium, a banned substance, and the same one that Maria Sharapova tested positive for in 2016, according to The Guardian.

Krushelnitckii has only had one blood sample test positive for the drug as of yet but a second sample will be tested following a 24 hour time period.

If it is determined that Krushelnitckii does have the banned substance in his system then he and his wife could lose their medals.

Meldonium's main use is to treat ischaemia, which is a lack of blood flow to parts of the body, particularly in cases of heart failure or angina. However, athletes have been known to use it to enhance their abilities. It does so by "carrying more oxygen to muscle tissue."

Coincidentally, in December of 2017, it was reported that the entirety of Russia's Olympic team had been banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

According to reports, the International Olympic Committee handed down this punishment to the Russian team as a result of discovering "systematic doping" that they believe to be state-backed.

Russian officials are also barred from attending the games, the Russian flag is not being flown or displayed, and the Russian anthem will not be played, per a New York Times story.

However, Russian athletes are not completely prohibited from competing, as some have received special dispensation. They are competing while wearing a neutral uniform and if they win any medals the official Olympic records will not reflect as Russian state wins, rather they are marked as wins for "Olympic Athletes from Russia."

Additionally, Thomas Bach, the president of International Olympic Committee, revealed that there is actually to be a special ceremony to re-distribute the medals that were awarded at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

This is due to the Russian athletes being stripped of their medals from those games after the mass doping discovery.

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