Norway’s team of Magnus Nedregotten and Kristin Skaslien lost the bronze medal match 8-4 to the OAR side on Feburary 13. 

Yesterday, Krushelnitckii was charged with a doping offence after the testing of his B-sample for meldonium at the World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratory in Seoul.

OAR could now be stripped of the bronze medal won by Krushelnitckii and his wife, Anastasia Bryzgalova.

If Krushelnitckii’s ban is confirmed, Nedregotten called for the International Olympic Committee to hold a new medal ceremony before the Games reach their conclusion on Sunday (February 25).

"At first, the main feelings were anger," Nedregotten said of his reaction upon hearing of the positive drug test. 

"We've been struggling through the Olympics and trying hard to reach our goal, which was a medal.

"Then we ended up in fourth and now knowing that they may have had an advantage against us in our games through cheating feels horrible.

"If he [Krushelnitckii] is found guilty, then they've robbed us of our moment of glory - receiving our medal in the stadium.

"That's not cool.

"That's hard to accept, feeling that you've been kept out of the limelight.

"Obviously, he is not guilty before he is convicted.

"All we know is it appears that he had an illegal substance in his body during competition.

"But if he is found guilty, the preferred option for us would be to receive the bronze medal at some point during the remainder of the Olympics.

"Obviously, it would be up to the organisers, what they would want to do about the matter, but receiving the medals this week would definitely be better than say, in a year's time."

There has been muchscepticism about the benefits for curlers of taking performance-enhancing drugs.

Nedregotten said that although some people may think curling is an unlikely sport to be the subject of doping offences, he is not so sure. 

"Based on what I've read, some substances can make you less stressed, make your recovery faster, and increase oxygen flow through your heart," he added.

"The Olympic competition was quite different to other events because we had so little time to recover, and it's quite hard for a male sweeper in mixed doubles.

"You have to follow and sweep every rock, and your muscles actually get quite sore and torn with all the work during that tight playing schedule.

"I know in my case I would have liked to be more fresh in some of those games and have more energy, at least mentally.

"It especially could have benefited those guys (OAR) as they had a really late game when they lost their semi-final, and then they were playing early the next morning against us in the bronze match.

"Also, if you're cheating, knowing that you have an advantage would give you a mental boost, and that feeling could be just as much of an advantage as the actual physical reaction."

Eve Muirhead, skip of Great Britain's women's curling team, has expressed her displeasure over the case surrounding Krushelnitckii. 

"I hate doping, its use is a pure scam," she told BBC Sport.

"All this is very frustrating. 

"When you hear about a positive doping test in your sport, it's very unpleasant. 

"After all that happened in Sochi [at the 2014 Winter Olympics], you could have thought that they had learned their lesson, but, unfortunately, this is not so."