Winter Olympics: Former KGB Agent Wins Gold in Biathlon

By Tactical-Life

If you’re going to succeed in the grueling winter sport of biathlon, you need to be skilled at cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. You know what might help with the latter? Being a former KGB agent. That’s what’s on the resume of Darya Domracheva, a biathlete who won a gold medal in the women’s 4x6km relay at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on Thursday.

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Winter Olympics Dominance

As The Guardian reports, Domracheva—who is 31 and hails from Belarus—has six Olympic medals in biathlon to her name. That includes a gold and a silver at these Olympic games, three gold medals at Sochi in 2014, and a bronze in Vancouver in 2010. But it’s her background that seems to be making headlines after it was revealed that she used to work for the KGB.

KGB Agent Past

Domracheva’s KGB past was actually uncovered a couple of years ago when Dynamo Sports Club posted a profile of her on its website. The profile was then deleted. Dynamo Sports Club is a fitness society established in the Soviet Union in 1923. Domracheva is evidently a member of …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life