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After the retirement at the end of the season, there was much talk of the possibility that Anastasia Kuzmina could line up at the starting points only in the relay races.
Thursday 3 October 2019 2 minutes reading time
It was the same Slovak biathlete who closed every speech yesterday about this hypothesis from his Instagram profile. "Six months have passed since the end of the season", Kuzmina writes to his fans, "I continued to train seriously because I had this idea in mind, helping my companions in the relay races. They are fit, the training sessions went well but too many things have changed in these months in my life. I thought about the pros and cons and decided to end my career. "
"I don't want to become a burden on the team", continues Anton Shipulin's sister, "and it will not be a bad idea to anticipate the generational change in view of the Beijing Olympics".
Thus, at 35, the career of the Tyumen-born girl with a Slovak passport and a palmares where the three Olympic Golds (Sprint in 2010 and 2014 and Mass Start in 2018) accompanied by three Silver medals shine are closing. In the last world championships in Ostersund, winning in the Sprint also added a world title to her board while the regret of the crystal ball remains, escaped in 2018, in favor of Kaisa Makarainen, for only three points. There remain three specialty World Cups, Sprint and Pursuit in 2018 and Sprint in 2019, in addition to the 14 victories in World Cup trials without considering the Olympic and World Games.
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