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Fourcade Finally Wins in Pokljuka; Another Top 20 for Bailey; Career-Best for Christian Gow

Harald ZimmerDecember 9, 2016

(Note: This article has been updated to include comments from Canada’s Scott Gow.) The exact details of Martin Fourcade’s record book depend a bit on who you ask. The official statistics of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) say the French biathlete got his 50th IBU World Cup victory on Friday in the men’s 10-kilometer sprint in Pokljuka, Slovenia. By his own count, he claims he already hit that milestone last week and this was his 52nd...

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With 1 Year Old at Home, Dorin Habert Wins Pokljuka Sprint

Harald ZimmerDecember 18, 2015

Two-time World Championships gold medalist, France's Marin Dorin Habert notched the third World Cup win of her career on Friday at the IBU World Cup in Pokljuka, Slovenia. She won the sprint by 1.1 seconds, ahead of Germany's Laura Dahlmeier and Franziska Hildebrand.

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19 Miles of Cable and One Espresso Machine: Biathlon, from Trail to TV

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 14, 20118

If you want to know about how biathlon travels from the trails onto television, the first thing you need to know about is cable. In Fort Kent, the site of Maine’s second biathlon World Cup in as many weeks, the stuff is everywhere. It’s mostly black, but also orange, blue, white, red, green, and yellow. It snakes along the sides of the trails, hangs neatly coiled from racks, and explodes into massive, spaghetti-like snarls when...