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SKELETON: Skeleton silver medalist Nikita Tregubov and one of his colleagues will miss the impending Winter Olympics in Beijing subsequent to getting the Covid and different competitors are additionally in question, Russian authorities said Monday.

"Recently obviously there could have been as of now no way of making it," Tregubov composed on Instagram. He said he felt fine and "everything to do with my wellbeing is great."

Tregubov and colleague Vladislav Semenov have been supplanted in the group by other Russian sliders, Russian Bobsled Federation President Elena Anikina told state news office Tass. She added that an unknown number of others from the group were "sitting tight for the consequences of tests" and will travel to Beijing later than arranged "assuming they get adverse outcomes."

Anikina didn't name the competitors impacted however two bobsledders from a similar four-man team allegedly tried positive last week.

Tregubov and Semenov set fourth and 6th individually at the last round of the World Cup series this month. The fifth-place finisher in that occasion, Germany's Axel Jungk, is likewise an uncertainty for the Olympics in the wake of testing positive for the infection.

One more Russian competitor in the game of biathlon pulled out Sunday in the wake of testing positive. The Russian Biathlon Union said Valeria Vasnetsova was in detachment subsequent to giving two positive tests, and that it had applied to supplant her in the crew.