[citation needed] At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Tretyakov won three out of four runs, established track (55.95) and start (4.47) records, and became the champion ahead of Martins Dukurs, who was universally considered to be the strongest gold medal contender.

To sleep well before the second day of the competitions, Tretyakov downloaded on his cell phone the series of Russian Wikipedia articles on the economy of the Tsardom of Russia and fell asleep while reading them.

[citation needed] Tretyakov's bottles of urine had scratch marks so he was provisionally suspended in 2016.

[3] On 22 November 2017, he was disqualified from the 2014 Winter Olympics and had his gold medal stripped from him.

[5] All results are sourced from the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF).