Bob, skeleton athletes wary of tests, may skip Sochi worlds
Elana Meyers Taylor and Steven Holcomb are dealing with the same problem. Both want to compete in this season’s world bobsled championships, since it this will probably be their final opportunities to do so before retirement.
Except, for now, those races are scheduled to be in Russia.
“And I don’t see how it’s safe for any athlete,” Meyers Taylor said.
There’s plenty of drug testing at world championship meets, and put simply, the trust level among plenty bobsled and skeleton athletes that their samples would be secure in Russia is below minimal — especially after the second report issued by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren on Friday showed systemic tampering with such tests.