Russia's Olga Zaitseva competes in the women's 10 km pursuit competition of the IBU World Cup Biathlon event in Kontiolahti, eastern Finland March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Double Olympic champion Olga Zaitseva took over as caretaker head coach of the Russian biathlon team with her sport dogged by a string of positive doping cases in the past months.
The 36-year-old, who won relay gold at the 2006 and 2010 winter Olympics and also won a silver medal in the mass start in Vancouver in 2010, had announced her retirement earlier this month.
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