Anastasiya Kuzmina and Paulina Fialkova met the press at Viessmann Slovakia Headquarters after their successful appearances in biathlon competitions at Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Anastasiya Kuzmina won silver medals in Pursuit and Individual competitions and gold medal in Mass start. Paulina Fialkova finished fifth in individual competition and helped the Slovak team to reach the fifth place at Women’s relay. Prior to press conference, Anastasiya received the Award for outstanding sports performance from the Club of Sports Journalists of Slovakia. The Club is the governing body of the Sportsperson of the Year Award in Slovakia. Anastasiya reached several World Cup victories after the deadline of the year-end award.
On February 10. – 11. Team Slovakia played the Fed Cup 2018 World Group II tie against Team Russia. In the battle of young and upcoming players, Team Slovakia managed to win against Team Russia for the first time in 25 years in tennis team competitions. Viktoria Kuzmova made her debut in Team Slovakia, playing two rubbers. On Sunday, she recorded her first Fed Cup victory and secured the historic win for her team.
Team Slovakia: Magdalena Rybarikova, Viktoria Kuzmova, Jana Cepelova, Anna Karolina Schmiedlova
Team Russia: Natalia Vikhlyantseva, Anna Kalinskaya, Anastasia Potapova, Veronika Kudermetova.
Mummies of the World is an exhibition displaying mummies. It also displays artefacts and fates of the mummified from around the world. It opened for the first time in Europe on February 1st 2018 in Prague. The exhibition displays genuine mummies and artifacts from Egypt, South America, Germany, Hungary and other countries. Part of the exhibition displays MUMAB Experiment from Baltimore, which took place in 1994. At the end of the exhibition, mummies from Czech museums are presented.
Thanks to organiser for the kind invitation and opportunity to photograph selected parts of the exhibition.
The 4th edition of IBU Cup 2017/2018 biathlon took place in Osrblie, Slovakia on 6th and 7th january 2018. On saturday sprint competitions were scheduled both for men and women. The weather was cloudy and later foggy which means difficult to photograph. In women’s competition the overall leader Uliana Kaisheva claimed the first place ahead of Chloe Chevalier and Kaia Woeien Nicolaisen. Later that day, the main star of the event Simon Fourcade claimed the first place in men’s competition, beating Norwegian biathletes Frederik Gjesbakk and Vegard Gjermundshaug. Martin Otcenas of Slovakia claimed a respectable 5th place, pleasing the home crowd.