Another Russian Olympian Just Failed a Doping Test

From Cosmopolitan

Nadezhda Sergeeva became the second Olympic athlete from Russia to fail a doping test during the PyeongChang Games, NPR reports. The 30-year-old bobsledder tested positive for trimetazidine, a heart drug.

Though Sergeeva came in twelfth place, she was .02 seconds from a podium time. Trimetazidine was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2014, and would've likely stripped Sergeeva of her medal had she scored one.

Sergeeva had taken a drug test last week and was clean. The most recent drug test that tested positive was administered on February 18; her race was the day before.

According to The Guardian, Sergeeva was among one of many Russian athletes who tested positive for the then-banned meldonium in 2016, but she was eventually cleared to compete after WADA deemed a low dose of the drug permissible.

News of Sergeeva's failed drug test comes less than a day after Russian curler Alexander Krushelnytsky was stripped of his bronze medal for also failing one.

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