LONDON: Britain’s skeleton Olympic gold medallist Lizzie Yarnold would be backed by the British Olympic Association (BOA) were she to boycott the 2017 skeleton and bobsleigh world championships in Russia over doping in the country.
It comes a day after Latvia’s skeleton team said they were boycotting the championships, to be held February 13-26 in Sochi, because Russia had “stolen the Olympic spirit in 2014”.
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