--- title: Russian Who Wore I Don't Do Doping Shirt Fails Drug Test description: An Olympic Athlete from Russia failed a drug test after competing in the two-woman bobsled event, and her apparel is raising eyebrows. canonical: https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-23T19:05:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:53.022Z og:title: Russian Athlete Who Wore Anti-Doping Shirt Fails Drug Test og:description: Russian Winter Olympics bobsledder tested positive for a banned drug og:url: https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01fe98683cd1bab/698928b2bc6cfcdbab3e5214/screen-shot-2018-02-23-at-10-59-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Nadezhda-Sergeeva og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Russian Athlete Who Wore Anti-Doping Shirt Fails Drug Test twitter:description: Russian Winter Olympics bobsledder tested positive for a banned drug twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01fe98683cd1bab/698928b2bc6cfcdbab3e5214/screen-shot-2018-02-23-at-10-59-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Russian Olympian Who Wore an 'I Don't Do Doping' Slogan Shirt Just Failed Her Drug Test ## Video: The Top Sports Court Has Upheld an Olympics Ban on Dozens of Russian Athletes [Watch (HLS stream): The Top Sports Court Has Upheld an Olympics Ban on Dozens of Russian Athletes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2Z6YSGjM.m3u8) (0:49)  _Published 2018-02-09. Sports’ highest court rejected appeals by all 45 Russian athletes plus two coaches who were banned from the PyeongChang Olympics over doping concerns in a decision announced Friday less than nine hours before the opening ceremony._  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 23, 2018 7:05 PM UTC  YouTube  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 23, 2018 7:05 PM UTC Nadezhda Sergeeva, pilot of the two-woman bobsled team representing the [Olympic Athletes from Russia](http://time.com/5164744/olympics-country-abbreviations/), proudly proclaimed her anti-doping stance when she appeared in [a YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGzR97IMZFk) wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan “I don’t do doping” stamped brightly across the front. But that slogan isn’t ringing so true today, after Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov [announced](https://sports.yahoo.com/russian-bobsledder-wore-anti-doping-shirt-just-failed-doping-test-112808964.html) that Sergeeva had tested positive for a banned heart medication, apparently the stimulant [trimetazidine](https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1061852/second-russian-tests-positive-for-banned-drugs-at-pyeongchang-2018), in a drug test. The [federation says](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/23/588211762/second-russian-olympian-fails-a-doping-test-at-pyeongchang-winter-olympics) that the bobsledder does not have a prescription for the drug. Sergeeva and her partner Anastasia Kocherzhova finished 12th in the two-woman bobsled event earlier this week; Germany, the U.S., and Canada [took the gold,](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/winter-olympics-2018/2018/02/21/2018-winter-olympics-usa-claims-silver-womens-bobsled/357841002/) silver, and bronze. Sergeeva had previously been tested on Feb. 13, with no adverse findings. This announcement marks the second OAR athlete to fail a doping test, following [teammate Alexander Krushelnitsky](http://time.com/5165308/olympics-2018-russia-curling-doping/) of the curling team; his bronze medal was stripped from him after he tested positive for meldonium. So far, they are the only two Winter Olympics athletes to test positive for banned drugs during these Games. Naturally, Sergeeva’s unfortunate situation is raising eyebrows — especially given the words on her sweatshirt. Hypocrisy is not a great look. Russia [was barred](http://time.com/5051287/russia-ban-winter-olympics/) from officially competing in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics earlier this year because of just this doping issue, although they [ultimately cleared](http://time.com/5141032/sports-arbitration-russia-olympics-doping-ban/) 168 athletes to compete as Olympic Athletes from Russia. So far, that delegation has [picked up 14 medals](http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals), including [Alina Zagitova](http://time.com/5172655/alina-zagitova-wins-gold-internet-reactions-olympics-2018/) and Evgenia Medvedeva’s gold and silver in ladies’ figure skating on Thursday event. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/"},"headline":"Russian Olympian Who Wore an 'I Don't Do Doping' Slogan Shirt Just Failed Her Drug Test","datePublished":"2018-02-23T19:05:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:53.022Z","description":"An Olympic Athlete from Russia failed a drug test after competing in the two-woman bobsled event, and her apparel is raising eyebrows.","url":"https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01fe98683cd1bab/698928b2bc6cfcdbab3e5214/screen-shot-2018-02-23-at-10-59-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd01fe98683cd1bab/698928b2bc6cfcdbab3e5214/screen-shot-2018-02-23-at-10-59-10-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nadezhda-Sergeeva","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/","name":"Russian Olympian Who Wore an 'I Don't Do Doping' Slogan Shirt Just Failed Her Drug Test"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Top Sports Court Has Upheld an Olympics Ban on Dozens of Russian Athletes","description":"Sports’ highest court rejected appeals by all 45 Russian athletes plus two coaches who were banned from the PyeongChang Olympics over doping concerns in a decision announced Friday less than nine hours before the opening ceremony.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/2Z6YSGjM/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-02-09T16:43:58.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2Z6YSGjM.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/","duration":"PT49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5172784/russian-doping-shirt/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```