where reigning world champion alexander project off donated the men's event and european champion elena mickey to not tops the time sheets on the women's side admitted she could have done even better. but it's a good track it's not as dangerous as the one in the coup over our locks here where you can fall over and here so it's hard this one is easier to negotiate but it's difficult to post fast times here it's got its own challenges but we still like it very much while russia's paralympic biathletes and cross-country skiers were put through their paces at the shooting range and in the gym before heading out for more training camps on the snow four years ago in vancouver russia came second behind germany in the overall medals table and more than thirty russians will be vying for the forty biathlon and skiing gold when the winter paralympics began on march the seventh with the six time skiing champion segregation of hoping to triumph again at home. last season was a tentative one we tried a lot of new things but there is no room to experiment this season now we're making good use of what we've b