Winter Olympics: Second Russian athlete tests positive for doping

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Nadezhda Sergeeva
Winter Olympics: Second Russian athlete tests positive for doping

Winter Olympics: Second Russian athlete tests positive for doping

A second Russian contestant competitory at the Olympics has tested positive for a prohibited substance.

Nadezhda Sergeeva, 30, is one among 168 Russians allowed to vie as neutrals at the Games despite the country being prohibited for previous doping offences.

She finished twelfth within the two-woman bobsleigh event in Pyeongchang.

On Thursday, Russian roller Alexander Krushelnitsky was stripped of his trophy once being found guilty of doping.

The Russian Bobsleigh Federation aforesaid Sergeeva had tested positive for "a heart drug" that "was not prescribed" by its medical team.

It additional that a take a look at on eighteen February came back positive however a previous one on thirteen February had showed a clean result.

Earlier on Fri, the neutral Olympic athletes from Russia (OAR) team won their 1st decoration of the Games in South Korea.

Fifteen-year-old Alina Zagitova came 1st within the women's single ice skating, with subject Evgenia Medvedeva taking silver.

The International Olympic Committee prohibited Russia over "systemic" doping at Sochi 2014, that the country hosted. However, athletes United Nations agency may prove they were clean were allowed to vie.

The implement team ar the third biggest at the Games, behind North American nation and also the us.

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