Bob Alexander Zubkov was removed from the World Cup

Bobsli, the Russian national team coach Semen Makarov told the R-Sport agency that he cannot yet find an explanation of why Bob Alexander Zubkov and Dmitry Trunenkov had been discovered by a shortness of the world championship in the American Lake Placis.

After the first race of the “doubles” competitions on the 2012 World Cup, which took place on Saturday, Zubkov and Trunenkov ranked sixth, lagging behind 0.26 seconds from the leaders - Canadians of Lyndon Rush and Jess Lamsden. However, after weighing Bob, it turned out that it was about 300 grams below normal (170 kg). As a result, the leaders of the Russian team were disqualified.

“We all checked and weighed,” said Makarov. “We had everything normal - zero to zero. What is happening in one day - Bob is losing weight, or what? It’s hard to explain. That year there was a story when we also took off the“ four ”for the wire. But before that, all three stages on the other routes Bob were normal, and here it became easier. And when we left it again.”

In December 2010, the Four Zubkov was removed from the competition at the stage of the World Cup, which was held in Lake Plsid. “That year, the four weighed 211.5 kg everywhere, and here it was weighed, and it began to weigh 209.8 kg,” Makarov said.

“Of course, we need to blame yourself,” said the interlocutor of the agency. “But we are adjusting the weight of the athletes so that it is not necessary to carry goods so that the bob is not loaded. Now the weight of Zubkov and Trunenkov is clearly designed so that there is the most easy bean, so as not to put anything superfluous there.”

When asked if they were not found in the weight of the other two Russian crews performing at the 2012 World Cup, Makarov replied: "Other guys do not fight for the first places. They do not pay such attention to them."

Alexander Zubkov is still refusing comments.