Beijing, Feb 1, Oleg Bogatov. Athletes of the Russian national skeleton and bobsleigh team before the start of the 2022 Games in China, from February 2 to February 6, two additional training sessions will be held at the Olympic track in Yanqing, said the head coach of the national team Danil Chaban. «We arrived in Beijing this morning, went through all the necessary procedures and are now driving from the airport to the Olympic Village (in Yanqing), — Chaban said, — All the tests were completed quite quickly, they (Chinese doctors) trained on us in the fall (the Russians held a training camp in Yanqing in November — ed.), and now they have succeeded The first additional training sessions for both bobsledders and skeletonists will take place tomorrow, February 2. there will be a joint training, and then separate: Women will train on February 5, and men on February 6. Bobsleigh competitions will be the first to begin among two-seater crews, we have athletes accelerating for training in deuces. «Chaban said on Tuesday that accelerating Alexei Pushkarev and Vasily Kondratenko, who passed positive tests for coronavirus at a training camp in Sochi, had not yet arrived in Beijing and continue to be tested in Moscow.
