Olga Potylitsyna lives in Moscow . She started playing skeleton in 2007 and has been a member of the Russian national team since 2008. In Winterberg , she made her debut in the European Skeleton Cup in 2008 and achieved a podium finish in third place in her first race. The following races of the European Cup season were consistently less successful. Only at the season finale in Cesana did she come close to the podium in fourth place. At the Junior World Championships in Königssee , which were Potylizyna's season highlight, the Russian reached seventh place. The following season Potylizyna started in the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup, but apart from a tenth place in the fourth and final race in Cesana never reached places in the top 15. In the rest of the season, the Russian was used in the European Cup , where mostly single-digit placings, came but only in Igls came fourth near the podium. For the 2010/11 season Potylizyna took part in the Skeleton World Cup for the first time. In Whistler on the previous season's Olympic track , she came 17th in the first World Cup race. The best result was fourth place in Igls, plus three more results in the top 10. She ended the season in ninth place in the overall ranking. At the European Championships and World Championships 2011 she was fifth.
In the first race of the 2011/12 season Potylizyna achieved her first World Cup victory in Igls. However, this remained her only podium finish in the World Cup and it was only enough to rank 14 in the overall standings, among other things because of a fall in Königssee and because she skipped two World Cup races. At the Junior World Championships in Igls, she won the silver medal behind Elizabeth Yarnold . In 2012/13 she took part in the World Cup except for one race and achieved two sixth places as best results, with sixth place in Igls at the same time as Anja Huber winning bronze at the European championship. In the 2013/14 Olympic season she started again in the World Cup after two fourth places at the start of the Intercontinental Cup , where her best result of the season was also fourth. At the subsequent Olympic Games in Sochi , she reached fifth place. The 2014/15 season played Potylizyna mainly in the Intercontinental Cup, where she finished fourth in the overall ranking. Only in the second half of the season did she take part in two World Cup races, where she was 14th and 15th. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season she won a race in the European Cup for the first time in Altenberg .
At the end of 2016, Potylitsyna was suspended alongside Alexander Tretyakov , Jelena Nikitina and Marija Orlowa in the course of the investigation into the McLaren report for alleged doping offenses during the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. In 2017, she received a lifelong Olympic ban.
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