MOSCOW, November 11, /TASS/. Russian biathlete Olga Vilukhina, a silver medalist of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, announced on Friday she has decided to end her sports career.

"I do not want to mislead anybody and pretend that I am preparing for the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang. I stopped training in October and decided to wrap up my sport career," Vilukhina said on her Facebook page.

Vilukhina, 28, is also a bronze medalist of the 2012 World Biathlon Championships.