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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 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 Racing

And The Most Improbable Comeback Award Goes To… The German Women

Chelsea LittleMarch 14, 2011

Going into Sunday’s women’s 4 x 6 k relay, there had been plenty of excitement already in this year’s biathlon World Championships. What could top Emil Hegle Svendsen’s furious attack in the last few hundred meters of the previous day’s mass start? Or how could there be a performance more dominating than Helena Ekholm’s two-minute victory in the individual race? Well. The fans in Khanty-Mansiysk didn’t realize it, but they were about to see something...

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Canada Comes Out On Top In North American Relay Battle

Chelsea LittleMarch 4, 201115

Much to the Americans’ and Canadians’ chagrin, the men’s 4 x 10 k relay at World Championships on Friday did not unfold as it often does. “At the start, they usually jockey for a bit,” Canadian leadoff skier Stefan Kuhn told FasterSkier. “But one Swede, Daniel Rickardsson, was thinking otherwise today, because he had two bad races. So he wanted to prove a point.” Instead of a tactical first leg, where many of the teams...

Canadian National Ski Team General Results World Cup

After Thrill of Teammates’ Gold, Canadian Women Push Through For 14th Place in Relay

Chelsea LittleMarch 3, 2011

When Dasha Gaiazova started the 4 x 5 k relay at World Championships in Oslo on Thursday, she still had a hangover. Was it from drinking? No. “We went to bed on time,” Gaiazova told FasterSkier, promising that the women’s team had behaved themselves and not celebrated too hard. But after her teammates Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw won the men’s team sprint in thrilling fashion on Wednesday and got to stand atop the podium...

Biathlon General Results World Cup

American Men 9th in Biathlon Relay, Best Result in a Year – With Photos

Chelsea LittleJanuary 24, 20113

It’s not as if the U.S. men’s biathlon team hasn’t shown its potential this year: Lowell Bailey led the beginning of the last relay before missing too many shots to maintain his position, and Bailey has had a number of top-20 finishes in individual races, while Tim Burke has two top-20’s and Leif Nordgren shot clean to finish 35th in the very first World Cup race of the season. But still, the biathlon world was...

Biathlon General Results

Weather Wreaks Havoc on World Cup Biathlon Relay; U.S. Has “Worst Race Possible”

Chelsea LittleDecember 12, 20101

At the first handoff of the men’s World Cup biathlon relay in Hochfilzen, Austria on Sunday, it looked like Norway might not be able to turn in the performance that everyone expected of them. Then Ole Einar Bjorndalen took over, and things went back to normal. Alexander Os, Norway’s first-leg skier, can be forgiven for turning in a less-than-perfect performance. Conditions were stacked against him, with huge wind gusts that held the range’s indicator flags...

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Henkel and Germany Take a Victory Lap in Women’s Biathlon Relay – Updated

Chelsea LittleDecember 11, 2010

Last weekend, if you had asked which country had the best female biathletes, the answer probably would have been Sweden. Anna Carin Zidek and Helena Ekholm both graced the podium multiple times at the World Cup openers in Ostersund, Sweden. But last weekend, Magdalena Neuner wasn’t racing. In Hochfilzen, Austria, things are different. In Saturday’s 4 x 6 k relay, Neuner was Germany’s second skier. She took the tag in third place, twenty seconds behind...

General News Racing World Cup

“Tomorrow Is A New Day” – Canadians Struggle in World Cup Opener

Kieran JonesNovember 20, 2010

The Canadian National Ski Team (CNST), despite fielding five men with Olympic experience, started the 2010-2011 World Cup season slowly on Saturday. In the 15 k freestyle in Gallivaere, Sweden, Alex Harvey led the team, placing in 34th, while Ivan Babikov finished 54th, Devon Kershaw 58th, George Grey 78th, and Brent McMurtry 94th. “It was definitely a bit of a letdown,” said Head Coach Justin Wadsworth in a phone interview with FasterSkier. “I was obviously...

Racing World Cup

US Locked, Not Quite Loaded For Double Relay

Topher SabotNovember 20, 2010

Much to the chagrin of certain US ski fans, the US Ski Team has not put much focus on relay events over the past eight years. Not since the 2002 Olympics have the Americans posted a top result, and more often than not, have been well to the back of the field. That is not going to change overnight, but with a both a men’s and women’s quartet hitting the trails on Sunday, and a...

Olympics Racing Results

Bjoergen Leads Norway to Relay Gold

Topher SabotFebruary 25, 2010

Lightning. Bears. Concrete walls. Those are a few things that might be able to stop Norway’s Marit Bjoergen right now. Mere mortals from Italy, Finland, and Germany? Fat chance. Taking the tag from Kristin Stormer Steira with Italy hot on her heels, Bjoergen laid down a blazingly fast final leg, dropping Sabina Valbusa on the very first climb. She skied away, uncontested, to her third gold medal of these Games—Norway’s first in the women’s relay...

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Hellner Leads Swedes to Relay Gold

Topher SabotFebruary 24, 201030

Whistler, British Columbia – The heavy snow had stopped, and as Marcus Hellner made his way around the stadium, the clouds broke. For the first time in two days, the sun shown down on Whistler Olympic Park, revealing a golden afternoon for the Swedish men’s cross-country team. It took 22 years and a return to Canadian soil for Sweden to regain the top step of the podium in the 4x10km relay. And for the Anders...

Racing Results World Cup

Swedish Women Take Relay Victory on Rival’s Soil

Topher SabotNovember 22, 2009

Beitostolen, Norway – The Swedish women’s relay team of Anna Olsson, Sara Lindborg, Anna Lindborg, and Charlotte Kalla turned an early 17 second deficit into a 16 second victory over rival Norway. Conditions were described as “midwinter” with new snow softening the icy tracks that welcomed racers in yesterday’s individual freestyle. The temperature was just under freezing at -1 C. The top-5 teams plus one pulled away in the first leg – Sweden, Norway, Finland,...

Racing World Cup

US and Canada To Start Relay

Topher SabotNovember 21, 20095

Beitostolen, Norway – World Cup racing continues tomorrow with a 4×5/10km relay. Canada will field both a men’s and women’s team, while the US will represent in the men’s race. The Beitostolen realy is the only such event prior to the Olympics, so there will not be another opportunity to see how team’s measure up. Canada is missing a key member of their squad – George Grey. Grey is recovering from an injury and will...

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