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Krasnoyarsk

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n cross-country skier

Cross-country skiing

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 who has competed since 2000.

Sidko won a bronze medal in the Individual Sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics

2006 Winter Olympics

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 in Turin

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. She also won a bronze in the Team sprint (with Yuliya Chepalova) at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 took place February 16-27, 2005 in Oberstdorf, Germany for the second time after hosting it previously in 1987. The ski jumping team normal hill returned after not being held in 2003...

 in Oberstdorf

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 and had her best individual finish of 12th in the Individual sprint in 2003. Sidko has nineteen wins at various levels in distances in up to 10 km since 2002. She took the 2007-08 season to pregnancy

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, but returned for the 2008-09 season.

Sidko was blacklisted from competing at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for breaking anti-doping rules.