Officers of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) before the training of the Russian women's ice hockey team in Pyeongchang took 16 sportswomen for doping control.

It happened two hours before the ice warm-up. Part hockey players did not have time to free themselves before the start of training.

Let's note, the women's Olympic hockey tournament starts on February 10.

Recall, December 5, 2017 IOC disqualified the Russian national team from the 2018 Olympics because of the doping scandal with Sochi-2014.

In 2016, a doping scandal broke out after the reports of Richard McLaren, who led the WADA investigation.

They said that Russian athletes were involved in manipulating doping tests at the Sochi Olympics. To replacing the doping tests with "clean" were involved senior officials of Russia.

To participate in the Games of Pyeongchang can "clean" Russian athletes under the neutral Olympic flag.