(Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)In an interview with the Associated Press earlier this month, Russian bobsled pilot Nadezhda Sergeeva said other Olympic athletes had warmed to her once she had been allowed to compete in this year’s PyeongChang Games by the International Olympic Committee. During the interview, she was wearing a shirt that read, “I don’t do doping.”You'll never guess who was busted for doping https://t.co/rpizoJaysn pic.twitter.com/jJP17UZtG3 — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) February 23, 2018On Friday, Russian bobsled officials confirmed to the AP that Sergeeva had failed a doping test. Sergeeva was one of the 168 Russian athletes who were vetted before the Games by the IOC, which had banned Russia’s Olympic federation from PyeongChang over past doping sins but allowed the preapproved Russian athletes to compete under the Olympic Athletes From Russia moniker. The president of the Russian Bobsled Federation said Sergeeva denies taking the substance and that her initial drug test at the Games came back clean. The positive test comes at the worst possible time for Russia.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2018 14:55 UTC