Russians cleared to race in non-Olympic skeleton, bobsled events
USATODAY (Olympics Coverage Top Stories)
2014 Sochi Olympic medalists Aleksandr Tretiakov and Elena Nikitina can race despite lifetime bans.
Seven Russian bobsledders and skeleton competitors, who were banned for life by the International Olympic Committee after being implicated in their country's state-backed doping scandal, were Thursday cleared to return to the World Cup but not the Winter Olympics.
Ooooof.
Russian Alexander Tretiakov, who has been stripped of his Sochi skeleton gold medal and banned from the Olympics for life, with an incredible blunder to start today's World Cup race, which he said afterward may have been his last.