A team of neutral athletes from Russia has complained of “negative treatment” at the Pyeongchang Olympics by a Canadian team member, underlining tensions surrounding Russia at the games.

Russia is banned from competing for their country due to an alleged state-backed doping scheme, but the international Olympics committee (IOC) has allowed it to send so-called neutral athletes who have no history of drugs-cheating.

The chief of mission for the “Olympic athletes from Russia” contingent at Pyeongchang, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said today that a Russian coach had been treated badly by a member of the Canadian delegation but gave no details.

The head of the Canadian mission has since apologized for the behavior of this specialist.