Finland, home of the some of the happiest people on Earth. And for the 2024-2025 season home to one of the happiest stories of the biathlon season. Suvi Minkkinen’s mid career surge from talented shooter and occasional top 20 athlete to one of the top women in the sport was seriously one of the mostContinue reading “Finland 2025-2026 Team Preview”
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Ruhpolding Recap
The Winners – Top Performers of the Week Nations Medal Table for the Week Nation Medals France 🥇🥇🥈🥉🥉 Norway 🥇🥈🥈🥉 Germany 🥇🥈🥈🥉 Sweden 🥇🥈 Italy 🥇 Latvia 🥉 Switzerland 🥉 Athlete Medal Table for the Week Athlete Medals Franziska Preuss 🥈🥈 Vebjoern Soerum 🥇 Lou Jeanmonnot 🥇 Tommaso Giacomel 🥇 Elvira Oeberg 🥇 Emilien Claude 🥈Continue reading “Ruhpolding Recap”
Finland 2024-2025 Team Preview
I’ve got reindeer and jingle bells dancing in my head. Jolly people singing. Snow. It either means I’m thinking about Christmas…or Finland. In this case, with the holiday season here it could be both! But right now, we’re going to focus on Finland! (I’ve been writing these for I don’t know how long straight nowContinue reading “Finland 2024-2025 Team Preview”
Summer Biathlon 2024 Part 3
The final day of August and the first day of September saw the highest concentration of major biathlon action that we’ll have all all summer long. Most of the attention was paid to the all star field seen in Annecy for the Martin Fourcade Nordic Festival. But there were also national championships taking place inContinue reading “Summer Biathlon 2024 Part 3”
Finland 2023-2024 Team Preview
I’ve got reindeer and jingle bells dancing in my head. Jolly people singing. Snow. It either means I’m thinking about Christmas…or Finland. In this case, with the holiday season here it could be both! But right now, we’re going to focus on Finland! (I’ve been writing these for I don’t know how long straight nowContinue reading “Finland 2023-2024 Team Preview”
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”
Oslo Week In Recap
How can it be? How is it that we’ve seen the last of the IBU Biathlon for this season? I feel like it was just last weekend I was at my in-laws’ house furiously typing out the season preview posts. And it was just a handful of days ago that we were watching with disbeliefContinue reading “Oslo Week In Recap”