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After Rainy, Warm Weekend, Oberhof Finally Blasted With Snow During Men’s Relay; “Hurricane On The Range”, Says Bailey

Chelsea LittleJanuary 6, 2012

When Thursday’s men’s relay in Oberhof, Germany kicked off, the television cameras could barely even show the start. After days of rain and warm conditions, the snow gods of Thuringia finally decided to let the World Cup biathletes see their worst. The snow was falling so thickly that zoomed shots from the cameras could barely pick out the skiers. “That was one of the hardest relays during my coaching career,” said U.S. Head Coach...

Biathlon XCFeeds

Foghof? Rainhof? Windhof?…Oberhof

SusanDJanuary 5, 2012

Knock, knock, knock! On my first morning in Oberhof, Germany, I’m jolted out of sleep by someone rapping on my door. I crawl out of bed and poke my head out into the hallway. “Good morning sleepy head!” my teammates Sara and Annelies great me with a laugh, “you really ought to [...]

Biathlon World Cup

After Devastating Implosion By Neuner, Russia Takes Women’s Relay Victory, Fourth Consecutive Win

Chelsea LittleJanuary 5, 2012

The best biathletes in the world got a warm welcome in Oberhof, Germany, on Wednesday – in fact, they could be forgiven if they felt that they were in the Thuringian version of a tropical storm. Although it didn’t actually rain during the evening race, the temperatures hovered just around freezing, humidity was close to 100 percent, and the wind, despite averaging around two meters per second, was recorded to gust up to 35 miles...

Biathlon Juniors

U.S. Names World Youth/Junior Championships Biathlon Team After Third Race in Qualifying Series

Chelsea LittleDecember 31, 20112

The format and qualification procedure for the World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships Team Trials were introduced in Thursday’s race reports. In any qualifying series, it all comes down to the last day of racing – when bubble athletes make or break it, when a single amazing performance can catapult a racer upwards in the standings, when men and women go home either elated or heartbroken. In Anchorage, Alaska, Friday was that day for junior biathletes as...

Biathlon Juniors

Del Frate Repeats, But Three New Victors Emerge at Day Two of Biathlon Junior Trials

Chelsea LittleDecember 30, 2011

The format and selection procedures at World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships Team Trials were explained in Wednesday’s Full results (Excel spreadsheet)

Biathlon Juniors

Dreissigacker, Del Frate, and Geraghty-Moats Dominate as Junior Biathlon Trials Kick Off in Anchorage

Chelsea LittleDecember 28, 20112

Today in Anchorage, World Youth/Junior Biathlon Championships Team Trials kicked off with a bang – or lots of bangs, as rifles knocked down target after target at Kincaid Park’s Sean Doherty of Saratoga Biathlon and Full results (Excel spreadsheet)

Biathlon Continental Cup

U.S. Finalizes Biathlon World Cup Roster for Period Two, Adds to IBU Cup Squad (Photo Gallery)

Chelsea LittleDecember 23, 2011

For the World Cup athletes, Thursday’s announcement by the U.S. Biathlon Association of team nominations for the second period of racing brought no surprises. Just as in the last weekend of World Cup racing in December, three women (Sara Studebaker, Annelies Cook, and Susan Dunklee) and four men (Lowell Bailey, Jay Hakkinen, Tim Burke, and Leif Nordgren) will represent the U.S. on the trails. But the real excitement of the day came from the selection...

Biathlon World Cup

UPDATED – Notes and Quotes from the Hochfilzen IBU World Cup Weekend

Chelsea LittleDecember 19, 2011

Biathletes on the IBU World Cup circuit hit up Hochfilzen, Austria for the second straight weekend after poor snow conditions in France forced the cancellation of a scheduled weekend there. While doubling up in Hochfilzen wasn’t too exciting, U.S. biathlete Lowell Bailey said that it wasn’t as bad as he’d expected, either. “The second week of racing here in Hochfilzen turned out to be quite a bit different than the first even though we were...

Biathlon World Cup

Biathletes Finish World Cup Period I With Mixed Relay, Russia Dominates

Chelsea LittleDecember 18, 2011

After a grueling early-winter schedule of three consecutive three-race weekends, biathletes around the world were ready to head home for the holidays. But they had one last little piece of business to check off their lists before they departed from Hochfilzen, Austria on Sunday: the first mixed relay of the season. Athletes had to survive a quick six kilometers for the women, seven and a half for the men, and two shooting stages each. A...

Biathlon World Cup

Snowy Trails and Packed Fields Make a Barnburner in Hochfilzen; Le Guellec, Hakkinen Top-Ten in Pursuit

Chelsea LittleDecember 17, 2011

There were a lot of unusual things about the World Cup biathlon races in Hochfilzen, Austria on Saturday. First, there was the inch of snow that fell during the men’s 12.5 k pursuit. Then, there was the fact that the field was incredibly compressed thanks to some strange weather in the original sprint race. “The snow storm that stopped [mid-race on Thursday] had a bigger effect than I expected,” U.S. biathlete Jay Hakkinen told FasterSkier....

Biathlon World Cup

Un-Retired Zaitseva Picks Up First Win of Season; Imrie Notches Personal-Best 25th in Hochfilzen Sprint

Chelsea LittleDecember 16, 2011

Remember all those Russian shenanigans about returned to biathlon, because recently she’s been on a tear. The 33-year-old Moscow native picked up her first win of the season on Friday in a 10 k sprint in Hochfilzen, Austria, to go along with two podium finishes from last weekend. She’s now finished on the podium four times in seven starts, and that’s the way she likes it. “I would like to be on the podium in...

Biathlon Racing

Boe Captures First Victory of the Season in Snowy Sprint, Bailey, Green Lead North Americans

Topher SabotDecember 15, 2011

Tarjei Boe (NOR) the overall Biathlon World Cup Champion last year finally made it to the top of the podium this season, besting Martin Fourcade (FRA) by a mere four seconds in the 10km biathlon sprint. Boe missed one target in a race impacted by weather. Heavy snow fell as the first starters took to the course, making for slow skiing conditions. As the day progressed, the snow abated, and the track sped up significantly,...

Biathlon World Cup

Canadian Women “Stoked” About Newfound Depth and Consistency on Biathlon World Cup

Chelsea LittleDecember 14, 2011

Lowell Bailey may be getting a lot of attention these days, but the American biathlete isn’t the only one to have found success in the early days of the 2012 World Cup season. Quietly, the Canadian women have upped their own profile – and their first two weeks of racing culminated in a ninth-place relay finish in Hochfilzen, Austria, tying the U.S. men’s performance. Team member Zina Kocher, who has been racing in senior-level international...

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Weekend Recap: December 9 – 11

Audrey ManganDecember 12, 2011

In case you weren’t glued to your computer screen this weekend, here are links to our coverage of elite racing that’s happened around the world over the past few days, all in one place. Cross Country World Cup | Davos, Switzerland Saturday 15/30 k Freestyle Men: Canadian Report | Results Women: American Report | Race Report | Results Women: North American Report | International and Race Report | Photo Gallery Women: Results | Race Report...

Biathlon World Cup

With Recent Success, U.S. Biathletes Left Hoping for More After Ninth-Place Relay Finish

Chelsea LittleDecember 11, 20112

With three men who have placed in the top twenty so far this World Cup season and one more who was the hero of last year’s World Championships relay, the U.S. had high hopes for Sunday’s 4 x 7.5 k relay, the first of the season. The team chose Lowell Bailey, who has finished as high as fifth in these first two weeks of racing, as their leadoff leg. And in some ways, he lived...

Biathlon World Cup

Kocher Improves to 23rd in Biathlon Pursuit; Dunklee, Studebaker 43rd and 44th for U.S.

Chelsea LittleDecember 10, 20111

Is it possible that Magdalena Neuner has checked out of biathlon? The German biathlete – who recently announced that she would retire at the end of the season at the young age of 24, and Full results

Biathlon World Cup

After Climbing to Fifth in World Cup Pursuit, Bailey Slips to 17th On Back Of Late Shooting Errors

Chelsea LittleDecember 10, 2011

“Today was one of the best biathlon races of my career,” Lowell Bailey told FasterSkier after Saturday’s World Cup pursuit in Hochfilzen, Austria. “…Except for the fourth shooting.” The American biathlete started the day ranked 14th, 52 seconds behind leader Carl Johan Bergman of Sweden. Through three stages, Bailey shot clean and skied his way up into fifth place. “This is really only the second time in my career that I have been in this...

Biathlon World Cup XCFeeds

Welcome to the World Cup!

SusanDDecember 8, 2011

This is a belated post about my experiences leading up to my World Cup debut last week in Ostersund, Sweden. Looking out the window… there are men setting up a television camera on a raised platform. They angle it so it will catch racers hammering over the course’s last uphill. Volunteers are unraveling sponsor signs, stretching [...]

Biathlon XCFeeds

Men’s Biathlon & Chandra Crawford

JoranDecember 7, 2011

Men’s Biathlon The US men’s biathlon team had an auspicious start to the season. Lowell Bailey in particular skied some of the best races of his life. Let’s focus on the following three North Americans (click for larger version): Obviously, the shooting statistics for this season are based on only this past weekend’s racing, so [...] Related posts:

Biathlon Juniors

Youth Olympic Games Presents: Stuart Harden

Chelsea LittleDecember 6, 2011

Canada’s hopes for a biathlon medal at the Youth Olympic Games are probably riding on no single athlete more than Calgary’s Stuart Harden. Harden is one of those athletes who seems to be a junior forever, simply because they find success at such a young age. Last season, he competed in his first World Junior Championships – mostly because before then, he had been too young to qualify. As it was, the then-16-year-old was still...

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