Elena Nikitina (RUS) mingles with other athletes and spectators prior to the women's skeleton medals ceremony at the 2017 BMW IBSF World Cup in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Placid,_New_York" class="extiw" title="w:Lake Placid, New York">Lake Placid</a>.  She placed fourth in the event, which came two weeks before she was provisionally suspended by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bobsleigh_and_Skeleton_Federation" class="extiw" title="w:International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation">IBSF</a> after an International Olympic Committee investigation into alleged Russian doping at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=2014_Winter_Olympics&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="2014 Winter Olympics (page does not exist)">2014 Winter Olympics</a> in Sochi.
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