MOSCOW, January 28, Pavel Levkovich. Biathlete Olga Podchufarova told how coronavirus influenced her decision to end her career. On Friday, the 29-year-old biathlete announced her retirement. In 2016, the athlete won the sprint at the World Cup in Antholz, and in 2017 she became the bronze medalist of the World Championship in the mixed relay. «Right now, the decision to end my career was easy enough to make, because I had already decided everything for myself, weighed «Health gave signals for obvious reasons, now there is one popular disease, it has very much mowed me down. I understand that the body's response under stress is no longer the one I would like to receive,» Podchufarova said. December, when I arrived at the Russian Cup stage and immediately fell ill. Then I finished with a temperature, tried to recover, it didn’t work out for me, it only got worse for me. I tried to train against this background. As a result, I came home, I was diagnosed with sinusitis, bronchitis , at that moment I realized that everything. Those starts that I was counting on, «Izhevsk Rifle» in the first place, go past me, «she added. In May 2018, the athlete announced la retired, but in August 2019 she announced that she was preparing for the next season. In October of the same year, the Russian biathlete was going to change her citizenship and play for the Slovenian national team. Later, Podchufarova announced that she no longer had any prospects to play for the Slovenian team, as EU laws did not allow her to complete the citizenship procedure.
