Olga Podchufarova has decided to try again: the Russian biathlete will return to the national summer championships and then ...

At 15 months from the withdrawal matured at only 25 years, one of the great (lost) talents of the movement could be back on track.

Tuesday 6 August 2019 3 minutes reading time

Olga Podchufarova, in fact, has announced that she wants to try again in the world of high-level biathlon. It would be an extra protagonist for the female sector, since we are talking about a very talented athlete, just remember the duels at junior level with Laura Dahlmeier, who curiously announced a few weeks ago her retirement at the same age as the Russian when, in May 2018, he had decided to put his rifle and ski in the attic. At 27, just yesterday, Podchufarova instead took a step back from the post-Olympic season goodbye, which came after two very difficult years that had followed a 2015/16 that gave her the first and only victory in World Cup, in the Anterselva sprint. "I look in good shape, but I don't know yet what will come out of this preparation. I'm going to try, at best it will only be a good training ", the words of the Russian biathlete, who at the time of the retreat had spoken of" enthusiasm of a time when there is more ". From the information that arrives, Olga would like to return to compete in the Russian Cup, to then play for a place in the national team thinking of the Ibu Cup and World Cup, but her first coach Yuri Lelin, returned to follow her for this new adventure, explains: " We must see how it will go in the summer national championships, we will understand something more about its possibilities ". Appointment then set to Tchaikovsky, from 17 to 23 September.

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