It might have been Alexander Tretiyakov‘s last skeleton run. It was not one to remember.
Tretiyakov, the Russian stripped of his Sochi gold medal and banned from the Olympics for life as part of a doping scandal, had an all-time blunder at the start of a World Cup race in Igls, Austria, on Friday.
Tretiyakov’s sled came out of the ice groove on his push start (similar to American John Daly in Sochi). Adding injury to insult, Tretiyakov fell on the ice before scrambling onto his sled.
Tretiyakov ended up 3.54 seconds behind the leader, in 34th place out of 34 sleds.