The German drivers missed their third victory of the Olympic Winter in the four-man bob. One day after the disappointment of last weekend in Park City, the winning Nico Walther and World Champion Johannes Lochner finished third and fifth at the World Cup in Whistler.
The two-time world champion Francesco Friedrich (Upper Bear Castle) even finished twelfth in the victory of the Russian Alexander Kazyanov.
“It was a very difficult weekend, even today. It was once again a race in which everyone had to push their limits,”said national coach Rene Spies:”We are not so far away on this track as to be able to hold against it. But I’m glad it was enough for a medal. So it was a conciliatory end to the weekend.”
Kasyanov and two other former team members, with whom he became fourth in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, are suspected of doping and had to testify about the Russian doping scandal before the Oswald Commission of the IOC.
The former bobsleigh driver and acting Russian association president Alexander Subkow, Olympic champion in the two- and four-man categories, was banned for life for the Olympic Games on Friday.