2nd Russian Athlete Tests Positive For Doping

Nadezhda Sergeeva, who finished 12th in the two-woman bobsleigh earlier this week, has tested positive for an unspecified banned substance at the Winter Olympics.

This has been confirmed now, 24 hours after the Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky was stripped of an Olympic bronze medal.

The news will also heap further pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who will meet on Saturday to decide whether the Russian team is allowed to march under their own flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony.

As things stand the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) is banned, although 168 of the country’s athletes have been competing in Pyeongchang under the Olympic Athletes from Russia banner.

Alexander Zubkov, the president of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation, confirmed Sergeeva’s positive test.