The United States is my home federation. In theory that means that I should know these athletes than any others. However, in practice it is much different. As everybody reading this knows biathlon in the United States is not even a secondary sport. It’s basically relegated to small groups of people in a handful ofContinue reading “United States 2023-2024 Team Preview”
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Czech Republic 2023-2024 Team Preview
While the Czech Republic may not be one of the traditional powers in the biathlon world they seem to never be far behind. While the Norwegians, French, Germans, and Swedes are powering through the season battling for the top positions in the Nations Cup there is always a small group of nations pushing and fightingContinue reading “Czech Republic 2023-2024 Team Preview”
Italy 2023-2024 Team Preview
Ciao bella! I don’t know why but every time I start talking about the Italian team I always want to start out that way. To my knowledge I haven’t ever done it yet so now I have. And honestly it really fits. Hey, no not because Giacomel has the hair of a Fabio or thatContinue reading “Italy 2023-2024 Team Preview”
Slovenia 2023-2024 Team Preview
Slovenia isn’t one of the traditional biathlon powers. That doesn’t mean that Slovenia doesn’t have a biathlon history. If you look back through the histories of biathlon you won’t see all that many instances of a powerhouse Slovenian team. Every now and then though you’ll see little moments. You’ll see a surge by Jakov Fak,Continue reading “Slovenia 2023-2024 Team Preview”
Switzerland 2023-2024 Team Preview
Few teams provided as much of a pleasant surprise last year as the Swiss squad. Both the men and women surpassed expectations to have their best years in well…ever. It certainly wasn’t expected when both Benjamin Weger and Selina Gasparin retired following the 2021-2022 seasons. But as mentioned above surprise was the name of theContinue reading “Switzerland 2023-2024 Team Preview”
Canada 2023-2024 Team Preview
For Team Canada, the expectations aren’t quite as high as they might be for say the German, or French or Norwegian squads. However, just because there aren’t expectations doesn’t mean there aren’t hopes and dreams and wants. Myriam Bedard for example was a three time Olympic medalist, winning two gold in Individual and Sprint inContinue reading “Canada 2023-2024 Team Preview”
2022-2023 Season Recap
Just wanted to offer some thoughts and take aways from the recently completed 2022-2023 IBU World Cup season. There was so much that happened that this might take me a month of two to get done so keep checking back! We’ll start off by checking out the amazing seasons of our Overall Globe Champs. We’llContinue reading “2022-2023 Season Recap”
2022-2023 Women’s Rookies of the Year
The 2022-2023 season was another great season for rookies joining the World Cup level. The women especially had a ton of athletes come up and have success immediately. I had to keep double checking to make sure these women fit my qualifications for “rookie” because there were so many. I even moved Lou Jeanmonnot andContinue reading “2022-2023 Women’s Rookies of the Year”
2022-2023 Men’s Rookies of the Year
It’s that time of year where we celebrate those athletes who made the biggest impressions on us. We already celebrated JT Bø’s historic season, Julia Simon’s championship year, and the breakout men and women of the 2022-2023 campaign. Now it is time to celebrate the rookies who gave us a first look at their futureContinue reading “2022-2023 Men’s Rookies of the Year”
2022-2023 Pre Worlds
1.French Women: How Much Depth is Too Much Okay that’s ridiculous. You can never have too much depth. Just ask the Norwegian men! I needed to frame the piece though which is how is it possible the French women have this much talent? It’s incredible. Before the season I was convinced that the team withContinue reading “2022-2023 Pre Worlds”