Biathlon is back and so are we! The racing this weekend in Pokljuka provided us with a little bit of everything. We had dominance for both the men and the women. There were young athletes showing signs of their future potential. Some former champs showed us its far too early to count them out. AndContinue reading “Pokljuka 2022 Week in Review Pt 1”
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Previewing Women’s Overall Race
As we enter trimester #2 of the World Cup season, we come what has traditionally been a turning point in the season. This is when the contenders start to separate from the pack. Almost every year it is the January swing that provides some critical results and cleaves off usually all but 3-4 women stillContinue reading “Previewing Women’s Overall Race”
Previewing Men’s Overall Race
A version of this post ran in the Annecy-le Grand Bornand Weekend Recap pt 2. Coming into this season it felt like the Men’s race could go in any direction. Quinton Fillon Maillet was dominant last season, was he going to claim a form of athletic revenge for Martin Fourcade who lost his title toContinue reading “Previewing Men’s Overall Race”
National Pride
We’ve taken a look at a couple of men and women who have appear to be making breakthroughs this season. Maybe just a few more than a couple. Okay fine, we looked at 12 athletes having breakthrough seasons, 12 younger athletes who are showing good promise, and 6 more athletes who are just having goodContinue reading “National Pride”
Breakthrough Seasons
It’s time for one my favorite exercises of the first trimester…celebrating biathletes in the midst of breakthrough seasons! There is almost nothing in biathlon that I love more than watching athletes reach new levels of success. Sometimes it is finally reaching potential that was seen in Juniors/IBU Cup. Sometimes it is the result of puttingContinue reading “Breakthrough Seasons”
Annecy-le Grand Bornand 2022 Week in Review Pt. 2
In part 1 we did our best to recap the best performances and moments of the weekend. In part 2 we’re going to take a look at some of the big take aways and questions coming out of the weekend. Today we have two big things to look at can Sturla Laegreid and Lisa HauserContinue reading “Annecy-le Grand Bornand 2022 Week in Review Pt. 2”
Annecy-le Grand-Bornand Weekend Recap
It’s hard to believe it but somehow we are already three full weekends into the season. Eight races down and 13 more to go plus the Oberhoff World Championships. How is that possible? It feels like the summer lasted for ever and now the season is flying along. It’s already time for us to doContinue reading “Annecy-le Grand-Bornand Weekend Recap”
Hochfilzen Week In Review Pt. 2
General Thoughts (and questions) from Hochfilzen 1)QFM: Time to Panic? Last season was Quinton Fillon Maillet’s crowning glory. It took him a season to get used to being the leader of the French Men’s Biathlon squad but once he got comfortable with it, he really took off. I don’t say this lightly when I sayContinue reading “Hochfilzen Week In Review Pt. 2”
Hochfilzen Week in Review Pt. 1
Week 2 of IBU World Cup Biathlon is in the books! While the sprint races started off looking a little warm and snow a little crusty the weekend brought snow and really dynamic racing. As I have said on many platforms by this point I didn’t watch the weekend races live. Instead I watched onContinue reading “Hochfilzen Week in Review Pt. 1”
2021-2022 Weekly Race Recaps
Below I have links to the weekend recaps from the 2021-2022 season. I’m going to keep these here so I’ll hopefully be able to revisit in the future and get an understanding of what my feelings were about the season at that moment in time. Hopefully it will serve a little like a personal andContinue reading “2021-2022 Weekly Race Recaps”