Biathlete Natalia Shevchenko told how she fell off her bike during training camp, resulting in her face being stung.
— Three stitches were placed last May. During the first pre-season training camp in Crimea, I fell off my bike heavily. There were no journalists there, so no one had time to see me in all my glory. And I myself didn’t talk about it later. It was the last long cycling training – 120 km. Usually we rode with Ira Kazakevich and Tamara Derbusheva, but Ira had already left, for some reason she had to fly a day earlier, and Tamara and I were left alone.
My husband Alexey accompanied us in the car and got in behind us. None of the three of us understood what exactly had happened. Maybe the front wheel fell into some kind of hole. I had it on block brakes myself, not disc brakes. The pads could be pressed, stick and the wheel would lock up. As a result, I hovered over the steering wheel. She flipped in the air twice, quotes RT Shevchenko.
Shevchenko, who previously competed in cross-country skiing under the name Mekryukov, switched sports in the summer of 2022.
This season, Shevchenko is second in the overall Russian Cup standings after three races and fourth in the Commonwealth Cup standings after 9 races.
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