Ukrainian and Russian athletes are set to compete side by side in a World Cup men's luge race on Saturday.

Skeleton sliders Kim Meylemans, of Belgium, and Nicole Silveira, of Brazil, will compete for gold in the women's event.

Some Olympic athletes unlucky enough to test positive for the coronavirus at the Beijing Olympics feel their quarantine conditions make a bad situation much worse.

Belgian skeleton racer Kim Meylemans was permitted to enter one of the Olympic villages hours after she tearfully turned to social media and detailed how upset she was about being in isolation over coronavirus concerns.