Russian soldiers held them down: Laura Dahlmeier tells of a dangerous incident. Russian soldiers held the later two-time Olympic champion after she had conquered the 5,642 meters with her father Andreas and three friends.
“The soldiers absolutely didn’t want to let us out until my father started biathlon, the Olympics and Sochi,” the ex-biathlete said. Dahlmeier reports, in the end there was a comparatively mild penalty of the equivalent of five euros and the incident was over.