Ontario's Frans Tests Positive For Cocaine

One of the country's top curlers has been suspended from the sport for two years after testing positive for a banned substance.

Joe Frans, who played second for Wayne Middaugh's since-disbanded Ontario team at the Tim Hortons Brier last March in Edmonton, was found to have cocaine in a urine sample he provided during a random sampling at the Brier, making him the first curler ever to test positive for a banned substance.

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