When you think of German biathlon what comes to mind first? Is it one of their great athletes like Sven Fischer or Magdalena Neuner? The forests of Oberhof? The Ruhpolding stadium with the fans right on top of the shooting range? Or is it the fans, just exploding with biathlon passion? While Norway, France, andContinue reading “Germany 2025-2026 Team Preview”
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Norway 2025-2026 Team Preview
Norway, the traditional native homeland of biathlon, continues to march forward as a biathlon super power into the mid 2020’s. The Norwegian men have been a force for decades now including two of the three kings of the sport, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Johannes Thingnes Boe, two of the three greatest of all time. TheContinue reading “Norway 2025-2026 Team Preview”
France 2025-2026 Team Preview
17 Overall Crystal Globes. 32 Olympic Medals. 130 World Championship medals. While they aren’t one of the traditional founding members of biathlon like Germany or Russia or Norway, France has emerged over the last 20-30 years as one of the great powers. Quinton Fillon Maillet and Julia Simon. Raphael Poiree and Anne Briand. Eric Perrot and LouContinue reading “France 2025-2026 Team Preview”
Slovenia 2025-2026 Team Preview
Nestled into the Southern Alps lies one of the most beautiful nations that so many people never think of. Slovenia never fails to absolutely stun. A photographer would struggle to take a bad photo there! We are so lucky that the the nation contains the world class venue in Pokljuka so we get to visitContinue reading “Slovenia 2025-2026 Team Preview”
Sweden 2025-2026 Team Preview
Sweden shares a border and a friendly, but intense, rivalry with their Norwegian neighbors. It’s a constant competition in everything. While historically one sided, the biathlon battle is starting to heat up! The Swedish women, boosted by the Öberg sisters, finished ahead of the Norwegian women in the Nation’s Cup in the 2022-2023 season forContinue reading “Sweden 2025-2026 Team Preview”
United States 2025-2026 Team Preview
If you’re an American biathlon fan then you know the statistic. We hear it every four years: Biathlon is the only Winter Olympics event that the United States has never won a medal in. In some ways it’s remarkable that a nation with over 330 million citizens has never won a single biathlon medal. AndContinue reading “United States 2025-2026 Team Preview”
2025-2026 Östersund Preview
Dates: November 29th – December 7th, 2025 Schedule: – Saturday November 29: Women’s 4x6km Relay + Men’s 4×7.5km Relay– Sunday November 30: Single Mixed (M+W) Relay + Mixed Relay (M+W)– Tuesday December 2: Women’s 15km Individual– Wednesday December 3: Men’s 20km Individual– Friday December 5: Women’s 7.5km Sprint– Saturday December 6: Men’s 10km Sprint– SundayContinue reading “2025-2026 Östersund Preview”
Czechia 2025-2026 Team Preview
As the 2025-2026 season prepares to get under way we find the Czechia team in an intriguing spot. On the women’s side a healthy Markéta Davidová can compete with anybody. We saw that last year as she started out the season on fire before a back injury erased the rest of her season. Tereza VoborníkováContinue reading “Czechia 2025-2026 Team Preview”
Austria 2025-2026 Team Preview
Austria is a nation steeped in winter sports tradition. When you think of winter sports and the Winter Olympics its hard not to see Austrians. Almost every winter Austrian fans are assured of having one of the winningest winter sports rosters. The overwhelming majority of this success, though, comes in alpine skiing. Of course thisContinue reading “Austria 2025-2026 Team Preview”
Switzerland 2025-2026 Team Preview
We are in the midst of the best run in the history of Switzerland biathlon. Over the last three seasons the Women’s team has finished 6th, 6th, and 5th in the Nations Cup while the Men finished 5th, 6th, and 5th. Those are the best ever finishes for those teams We’ve seen Niklas Hartweg winContinue reading “Switzerland 2025-2026 Team Preview”