MOSCOW, 7 Aug. Russian biathlete Kira Dyuzheva told how she encountered a bear during training.
“This is still the worst thing for me. I am very afraid of bears, it’s just terrible. was a control cross-country race. I then ran barefoot on the sand. After it, we walked towards our village, and I look down at my feet, raise my head in a moment and see a bear. He was standing in the direction where we were heading,» the sportswoman told Sport24 .
According to the biathlete, when she saw the bear, she «fell into a stupor and fell out of reality.»
«»My sister barely woke me up with her cry. We ran in the other direction, it was several kilometers to the nearest village. It was spring, the bears, in fact, just woke up then, I don’t know why he didn’t run after us, but when I looked back, he stood on his hind legs and looked after us. It was terribly scary. Only later, when we were picked up by a motorcyclist , I realized what could happen. It was a moment on the verge of life and death, «said Dyuzheva.