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The Drama’s Behind Them: Dahlmeier and Bø Cruise to Antholz Pursuit Wins
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The Drama’s Behind Them: Dahlmeier and Bø Cruise to Antholz Pursuit Wins

Chelsea LittleJanuary 20, 2018

Norwegian biathletes started in the lead of both of today’s World Cup pursuits in Antholz, Italy, today, and one stayed there: Johannes Thingnes Bø cruised to a one-minute win over French rival Martin Fourcade, shooting a perfect 20/20 and flying on the trails. In the women’s race, his teammate Tiril Eckhoff had a few too many missed shots, and as she faded to fourth Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier surged to eventually claim a 17.3-second win over...

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Friday Rundown: Antholz IBU World Cup; Western Canadian Championships
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Friday Rundown: Antholz IBU World Cup; Western Canadian Championships

FasterSkierJanuary 19, 2018

IBU World Cup (Antholz, Italy): Men’s 10 k sprint One prone penalty wasn’t enough to keep Johannes Thingnes Bø from his third-straight victory (and ninth this season, including relays) as the 24-year-old Norwegian won the men’s 10-kilometer sprint on Friday at the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup in Antholz, Italy. Bø started 42nd of 109 men and had to navigate tricky wind conditions, along with the rest of the field. After missing one target...

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Thursday Rundown: Eckhoff Comes Up Big in Antholz Sprint
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Thursday Rundown: Eckhoff Comes Up Big in Antholz Sprint

FasterSkierJanuary 18, 2018

IBU World Cup (Antholz, Italy): Women’s 7.5 k sprint So far this season, Norway’s Tiril Eckhoff had yet to crack the top 20 outside a relay in the International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup. That all changed Thursday when she won the women’s 7.5-kilometer sprint in Antholz, Italy. She did so by hitting all 10 targets and besting the time of Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier by 12 seconds at the finish. “I was very nervous for...

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Closing the Gap: Head Games
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Closing the Gap: Head Games

FasterSkierJanuary 16, 2018

Editor’s Note: The following is part of a series proposed by Maks Zechel, a 20-year-old Canadian cross-country skier embarking on his first season training abroad. In August, he made the big move to Norway, where he’ll be training and racing with Team Asker for the entire winter. Through these updates, Maks hopes to share his personal “observations, stories and lessons learned” to help close the gap between North American and Scandinavian nordic skiing. Previous posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. ...

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The Run Is Over: Bjørndalen Not Named to Norway Olympic Team
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The Run Is Over: Bjørndalen Not Named to Norway Olympic Team

Chelsea LittleJanuary 15, 2018

For the first time since 1992, Ole Einar Bjørndalen will be doing the same thing as you come Winter Olympics time: he’ll be watching it. Okay, not just like you, but Bjørndalen – who made his Olympic debut in 1994 and went on to become the most successful Winter Olympian of all time with eight gold and five other medals – won’t be on the Norwegian biathlon team. Instead, the husband of Belorussian superstar Darya...

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Crawford Fourth in Ruhpolding Mass Start; Burke 21st
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Crawford Fourth in Ruhpolding Mass Start; Burke 21st

Harald ZimmerJanuary 14, 2018

Note: This article has been updated to include comments from Rosanna Crawford. For a few minutes, it looked like Biathlon Canada’s Rosanna Crawford could clutch her third in the 15 k individual). She has followed that up with another one of her best results of her career. “The crowd was amazing in Ruhpolding this whole week! I loved having my first podium at one of the most popular World Cup venues,” she wrote. “We had...

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Sweden Goes 1-2, U.S. Women Third in Dresden Team Sprint
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Sweden Goes 1-2, U.S. Women Third in Dresden Team Sprint

Gabby NaranjaJanuary 14, 2018

DRESDEN, Germany — Just over 15,000 people gathered at the Elbe River bank on Sunday, some donned in sunnies and carrying sauce-laden brätwurst from pop-up food carts, though all took pause around 11:14:59 a.m. It wasn’t to take in the Altstadt baroque-style buildings that make up the city skyline, nor was it to bask in the bright, mid-morning sun hovering on the horizon. A new attraction had come to the capital city, and all eyes...

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Pellegrino Anchors Italy to Another Dresden Win; Late Crash Takes Out U.S. Men
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Pellegrino Anchors Italy to Another Dresden Win; Late Crash Takes Out U.S. Men

Alex KochonJanuary 14, 2018

(Note: This article has been updated to include comments from Canada’s Bob Thompson.) Federico Pellegrino’s winning move in the men’s 6 x 1.2-kilometer freestyle team sprint on Sunday wasn’t exactly the same as yesterday when the Italian attacked on the final climb of the Saturday’s individual sprint, Locke placed 15th for a career best. The two ultimately finished seventh in the first team-sprint semifinal, just one place behind Great Britain’s James Clugnet and Andrew Young....

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Sunday Rundown: U.S. 3rd in Dresden Team Sprint; Crawford 4th in Mass Start
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Sunday Rundown: U.S. 3rd in Dresden Team Sprint; Crawford 4th in Mass Start

FasterSkierJanuary 14, 2018

IBU Biathlon World Cup (Ruhpolding, Germany): 12.5/15 k mass starts Kaisa Makarainen of Finland took her first win of the season and will start next weekend with the overall World Cup leader’s bib after she outsprinted Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier by 0.8 seconds to claim the win in the 12.5 k mass start. In a tight race for third, Veronica Vitkova of the Czech Republic edged out Rosanna Crawford of Canada for the final spot on the podium; the pair...

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Caldwell Third in Dresden City Sprint; Falk Gets First Win Since 2010
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Caldwell Third in Dresden City Sprint; Falk Gets First Win Since 2010

Chelsea LittleJanuary 13, 2018

In Sophie Caldwell’s quarterfinal heat of the World Cup skate sprint in Dresden, Germany, she led from start nearly to finish. In the final 200 meters she was passed by Sweden’s Hanna Falk, but won a photo finish for second place and advanced to the semifinals. In that quarterfinal heat, the U.S. Ski Team member had finished just 0.24 seconds behind Sweden’s Falk. As the racing got even tighter in the semifinals and final, it...

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The Grandkids Will Love This: Pellegrino Beats Klæbo in Dresden; Hamilton 10th, Locke 15th
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The Grandkids Will Love This: Pellegrino Beats Klæbo in Dresden; Hamilton 10th, Locke 15th

Alex KochonJanuary 13, 2018

How do you beat Norway’s Johannes Høsflot Klæbo at his competition-crushing game? Take him by surprise with minimal time to recover. Italy’s Federico Pellegrino did just that on the last uphill rise of the 1.2-kilometer sprint course on Saturday in Dresden, Germany. Dresden, a historic city in eastern Germany, debuted its brand-new course along the Elbe River on manmade snow amid damp conditions and temperatures above freezing throughout the day. Pellegrino had done what he...

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Saturday Rundown: Dresden, Ruhpolding, Kaiser Maximilian Lauf
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Saturday Rundown: Dresden, Ruhpolding, Kaiser Maximilian Lauf

FasterSkierJanuary 13, 2018

FIS Cross Country World Cup (Dresden, Germany): Freestyle sprints Men’s report For her second-straight World Cup sprint, Sophie Caldwell of the U.S. Ski Team reached the podium in the women’s 1.2-kilometer freestyle sprint on Saturday in Dresden, Germany. Caldwell placed third in the final behind Sweden’s Hanna Falk, who won it in 2:11.02 minutes, and Maja Dahlqvist, also of Sweden, who placed second (+0.23). Caldwell and Dahlqvist both lunged in a photo finish for second,...

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MSA NorAm Trials: Notes and Quotes
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MSA NorAm Trials: Notes and Quotes

FasterSkierJanuary 12, 2018

The third NorAm of the season in Mont Sainte-Anne (MSA), Québec, was also a Canadian selection event for next month’s Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, as well as Junior and U23 World Championships, which start later this month in Goms, Switzerland. The original schedule of racing from Saturday, Jan. 6, to Tuesday, Jan. 9, with a backup race day on Wednesday had to be modified when Saturday and Sunday were colder than International Ski Federation...

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Friday Rundown: Ruhpolding Men’s Relay
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Friday Rundown: Ruhpolding Men’s Relay

FasterSkierJanuary 12, 2018

IBU World Cup (Ruhpolding, Germany): Men’s 4 x 7.5 k relay Less than a week after International Biathlon Union (IBU) press release, the Norwegians avoided the penalty lap and used seven spares to clean. First-leg skier Birkeland put them in second with near-perfect shooting (0+0, 0+1), just 0.4 seconds behind Germany’s Erik Lesser, who cleaned without any spares, in first. (Birkeland was also on the Norwegian team that won the

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U.S. and Canada Annouce Squads for FIS World Junior & U23 Championships
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U.S. and Canada Annouce Squads for FIS World Junior & U23 Championships

FasterSkierJanuary 12, 2018

The U.S. and Canada have named their squads for FIS Cross Country World Junior and U23 Championships, set to begin later this month in Goms, Switzerland. Both countries’ selections include athletes who excelled against the senior fields at recent domestic races (U.S. National Championships and NorAms) which served as selection races for Olympic teams. In fact, Canada’s U23 women did so well against their senior compatriots that it’s unclear who will represent Canada at the...

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With ‘Biathlon Family’ Behind Her, Crawford Third in Ruhpolding 15 k
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With ‘Biathlon Family’ Behind Her, Crawford Third in Ruhpolding 15 k

Harald ZimmerJanuary 11, 2018

For a while it looked as if the podium in the women’s 15-kilometer individual at the Thursday’s IBU World Cup in Ruhpolding, Germany, had been all but decided with only a few more athletes circling the course. But then the favorites who had already finished had someone to worry about. Along with some 13,000 spectators in the stands, they paid close attention to the video walls in the arena, as one late-starting Canadian — Rosanna Crawford...

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Thursday Rundown: Crawford Third in Ruhpolding
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Thursday Rundown: Crawford Third in Ruhpolding

FasterSkierJanuary 11, 2018

IBU World Cup (Ruhpolding, Germany): Women’s 15 k individual  IBU Cup women’s 15 k individual, also on Thursday. “That spark is exactly what our team needs right now and the timing is spot on,” Dunklee continued. “We will field our first women’s relay this weekend.  It has been a challenging season so far living and traveling with such a small crew, trying to stay upbeat and carry the team with a skeleton group.” The World Cup...

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Wednesday Rundown: Ruhpolding IBU World Cup; MSA NorAm Trials
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Wednesday Rundown: Ruhpolding IBU World Cup; MSA NorAm Trials

FasterSkierJanuary 10, 2018

IBU World Cup (Ruhpolding, Germany): Men’s 20 k individual For France’s Martin Fourcade, the difference between a miss on the last shooting stage of the men’s 20-kilometer individual International Biathlon Union (IBU) World Cup on Wednesday versus perfect shooting wouldn’t have ultimately changed his result in Ruhpolding. Despite the one-minute penalty, which was tagged onto his total time after his lone miss of the day, Fourcade still won by a minute. The Czech Republic’s Ondřej...

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