Sergey PogrebnyakSports CorrespondentAll materialsEmail the authorHow everyone was sick and wished good luck to Maxim Tsvetkov in the pursuit at the Olympics. But after the first shooting, the Russians had a new hero. Maxim rolled back into the second ten after two misses, and Eduard Latypov broke into third place, which he staked for himself until the very finish line. Russian fans should be glad that such a biathlete represents the country, because Latypov could run under a different flag. Eduard was born in Grodno, Belarus, when his father was in the army. But already at a young age, the family moved to the Samara region. More precisely, to the village of Kamyshla, which all biathlon fans from Russia already know about.
