The dangerous track in Vancouver continues...
The 2006 Turin silver medalist in four-man bob failed to negotiate the dangerous curve, nicknamed "50-50" for the odds of crashing there. The Russian quartet seemed uninjured as they left the bob.
The Team 2 (Zubkov, Philipp Egorov, Petr Moiseev and Dmitry Trunenkov) showed the time of 52.52 seconds in the first heat and were ranked 21st, 1.63 seconds behind the leaders.
Nikita Muzyrya, who heads Russia"s bobsleigh federation, said the crash was caused by a malfunction in the sled"s steering system, not by the pilot"s error.
"There was a malfunction in the steering system: first a steering cable broke, then, on Curve 11, a [steering] handle came off. On Curve 13 the sled flipped over,” he told the Rossiya 2 TV channel.
Earlier this week, Zubkov was promoted to the third place and subsequently won the bronze medal in two-man bob after a Canadian duet of Lyndon Rush and Lascelles Brown crashed in that dangerous stretch.