Domracheva started her sports career with cross-country skiing in 1992 but switched to biathlon in 1999. She originally represented Russia at youth level but received an offer to switch to Belarus in 2004.[2] She joined Belarus’ national biathlon team in 2006 (made her junior team debut in 2005).Domracheva won sprint and pursuit at the 2005 IBU Youth and Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti (Finland). She finished 40th in the individual race (the diopter fell off, and she missed 5 targets at the third shooting stage.)Domracheva took 3rd place in the pursuit and 4th place in the individual events at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Presque Isle, Maine. In 2007 she picked up two silver medals in sprint and pursuit at the Junior World Championships in Martell, Italy.Her breakthrough came during the 2008/2009 season when she earned two third places and one second place.At the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 15-kilometer individual race at the Whistler Olympic Park venue. Later in the same season, on 13 March, she won her first World Cup race in the sprint in Kontiolahti, Finland. The next day she also won the pursuit.Domracheva was named Belarus' Female Athlete of the Year in 2010, and was also given the title of Honoured Master of Sport that year.In 2014 Domracheva was given the Hero of Belarus medal, after was a won three gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics.In August 2015, Domracheva was decided that will miss 2015–16 World Cup season due to mononucleosis which was diagnosed in July.She is coached by former World Champion and Olympic medallist Klaus Siebert.
Dear Ben,
Thanks for your letter. I haven’t written to you earlier, because I was preparing for my exams.
In your letter you asked me about a person who I admire. Well, the person who I admire the most is Yuri Gagarin. He was born on the 9th March 1934, in Smolensk Region. He is famous as the first man in the space. In 1951 he entered the Saratov Industrial College. Three years later, he came to Saratov Aeroclub. In 1955 Gagarin achieved success, graduated from the college and he took a flight on the plane.
After his graduation, Gagarin called up for the army. In 1961 he became the first man who flew into the space by “Vostok-1”. The reason I admire him because he’s really courageous and brave.
Anyway, I have to go now.
Write back soon,
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Computer addicts are the minority of computer users but there is no doubt that more and more young people are computer literate. Computer studies is a subject in many schools and many young people have personal computers. About one in three hundred computer owners spend almost all their time using computers.Ninety six per cent of them are males of all ages. All of them spend an average of twenty hours per week on home computers. The majority of the adults also use computers at work. All the computer addicts are very intelligent. They have been interested in science and technology from a very early age and they are usually very shy people who like being alone.A survey in a school showed that fewer girls are interested in computers because girls are less likely to have a computer. Even if they have one, they use then less frequently than boys. Possibly it is because we think of computers as something to do with maths and science, which are traditionally 'male' subjects. Possibly it is because most of the computer teachers are men, who give the girls less attention. Possibly parents think it is less important for girls to have computer skills.Computer addicts are usually very shy people. Using computers gives them confidence. They love debugging and solving problems, develop programs and love learning programming languages. They learnt to communicate with other users through computer networks and the people they met in school and work think of them as experts who could help and advise when they had problems with their machines. A few spend their time 'hacking' and one addict left a message on a computer of Buckingham House. Very few computer addicts play computer games, but many people use a computer exclusively for games.Some parents worry about computer games because they think their children won't be able to communicate with real people in the real world. But parents do not need to worry. According to research computer addicts usually do well after they have left school. Parents also do not need to worry that computer addiction will make their children become unfriendly and unable to communicate with people.It is not the computer that makes them shy. In fact, what they know about computers improves their social lives. They become experts and others come to them for help and advice.For most children computer games are a craze. Like any other craze, such as skate-boarding, the craze is short-lived. It provides harmless fun and a chance to escape.<span>If we didn't have these computer addicts, we wouldn't have modern technology. They are the inventors of tomorrow.</span>
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