One of my favorite parts of a biathlon season is watching the improvements that occur. There is also something really exciting about an athlete reaching their potential or finding a level that you didn’t know was even possible for them. This pieces is dedicated to those athletes who achieved that this season! Breakthroughs come inContinue reading “Career Best Seasons”
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Surprise Medal Contenders?
As the 2026 Olympic Games approach, most even casual biathlon fans know who will be the serious medal contenders in the non-relay races. If you’re new to biathlon or just tuning in for these Olympics take a quick glance back at some of the recaps found at this page https://penaltyloop.com/weekend-recps/ and you’ll find those athletesContinue reading “Surprise Medal Contenders?”
2026 Olympic Wish List
I’ve been thinking about these Olympic Games for months now. Truthfully for the last couple of years. As it’s been approaching I think about how much I want to certain athletes to get a moment of Olympic glory. Well now the races are upon us and I’ve decided to make my official wish list. ThisContinue reading “2026 Olympic Wish List”
2025-2026 First Trimester Breakthrough & Career Best 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 “2025-2026 First Trimester Breakthrough & Career Best Seasons”
2025 Annecy-le Grand Bornand Recap
The Winners – Top Performers of the Week Nations Medal Table for the Week Nation Medals France 🇫🇷 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 Norway 🇳🇴 🥇🥇🥇🥈🥉🥉 Italy 🇮🇹 🥇🥉🥉 Sweden 🇸🇪 🥈 Finland 🇫🇮 🥇 Athlete Medal Table for the Week Nation Medals Lou Jeanmonnot 🇫🇷 🥇🥈🥈 Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen 🇳🇴 🥇🥉 Johannes Dale-Skjevdal 🇳🇴 🥈🥉 Emilien Jacquelin 🇫🇷 🥈🥉Continue reading “2025 Annecy-le Grand Bornand Recap”
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”
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”
United States 2023-2024 Team Preview
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”
Most Improved Women 2021-2022
We talked about this a bit on our the Penalty Loop podcast on our Season Review episode but I wanted to break it out a little bit more here. I’ll be honest the plan was to post this immediately after the episode but life happens sometimes. Anyway, here are my thoughts! A Most Improved biathleteContinue reading “Most Improved Women 2021-2022”