“For 15 days I have a bad dream, I slept a little before the mass start in Ruhpolding, and then there were problems again,” said the athlete on Match TV.

According to her, the whole thing in the work of her nervous system.

“I can just walk outside, and my pulse hits under 150 beats per minute,” added Pavlova.

In the sprint at the KM stage in Antholz, Russia is represented by Margarita Vasilyeva, Irina Starikh, Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht and Svetlana Mironova.

Earlier, Korastylyev was fourth in the sprint at the IBU Cup in Switzerland.