Biathlon Biathlon the winter Olympic sport combining ski race with firing from a rifle. Biathlon is most popular in Germany, Russia, Norway and Sweden. Since 1993 to the present official international biathlon competitions, including the World Cup and the World Cups, take place under the auspices of the International Biathlon Union. In biathlon athletes compete at distances from 6 to 20 kilometers, from two to four times stopping in firing lines. Extent of the route and number of approaches to a shooting range depends on a class of competitions and age of participants.
1. Russian writer Nikolai Saltykov took the pseudonym Shchedrin.2. Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day.3. Vladimir Dal thought saying the first half of proverbs.4. Yesterday, we decided to Oleg complicated chess problem.5. E. Lasker was the second world chess champion. This title he held for many years.6. The first world champion from the Soviet grandmasters became Mikhail Botvinnik.7. Curies first discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity.8. The first atomic bombs the Americans dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.9. Principles of image transmission (television) Russian scientist invented in the early twentieth century.
1). I wonder why he is laughing. I see nothing funny in what is going on. 2). What you two are talking about? Are you discussing your plans? 3). Are you leaving the town early next summer? 4). When will you speak to her about her marks? 5). She wears dark spectacles. They are not just sun-glasses. She does not see very well. 6). Why are you wearing sun-glasses on a gray day like this? 7). He is living with his parents now. I think he is looking for a job. 8). I couldn’t see his face, he was sitting so that his face was in shadow. 9). When I saw her last, she was trying on hats in a large department-store. 10). For some fifteen minutes he was writing in silence without raising his eyes from what he had written.
