28-year-old Olga Podtjufarova has been away from the big biathlon scene since 2018. Then she, who has taken the World Cup bronze in mixed relay, that she quits.
But her end did not last very long, and in October 2019, Russia approved her change of national team to the Slovenian one.
She waited for 18 months in Slovenia, to no avail.
Podtjufarova's attempt to obtain citizenship in the country failed.
“Obviously, this development was a blow to me.
Everything went wrong, now I'm just trying to think ahead ", Podtjufarova writes on Instagram.
26th in the return
Now she will once again try to push herself into the Russian national team.
And in this weekend's Russian championship in Chanty-Mansiysk, she made her first races in two and a half years.
It was not a success, where she, among other things, became 26th in the sprint after a boom.
Two minutes and 39 seconds behind the winner Yevgeny Pavlova.
"To sum up my results, it is only to state that I have to rise," she writes.
In addition to the World Cup bronze in mixed relay, Podtjufarova has three individual podium places in the World Cup, where one was a victory in the sprint season 2015/2016.