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• As IBU Cup Prepares for North American Swing, Canadians Laud Value in Athlete Development

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  The Canadian team of (R-L) Nathan Smith, Scott Gow, Melanie Shultz, and Claude Godbout finished fourth in an IBU Cup mixed relay in December. Photo courtesy of Melanie Schultz. When American and Canadian skiers start consistently winning domestic races, they face a choice: do they stay on their home circuits, or ...
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• YOG Women’s Biathlon Pursuit: Perfect Conditions, Tricky Racing—Kubek Leads North Americans in 10th

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  SEEFELD IN TIROL, Austria– Every Nordic race director is well versed in Murphy’s Law. Today, Seefeld Stadium was more or less the Titanic—the unsinkable race venue. Temps were cold, the loops were covered with a meter and a half of perfectly groomed snow, thousands of cowbell clanging Tyroleans lined the ...
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• After Cross-Firing Debacle Removes Neuner, In Tears, From Contention, Berger Emerges From Confusion To Take Pursuit Victory

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  Eventual winner Tora Berger of Norway leads Magdalena Neuner of Germany on the first lap of Sundays 10 k pursuit in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. Photo: NordicFocus/Fischer. Of all the nordic disciplines, biathlon is perhaps the one where small errors make the biggest difference. A centimeter here, a millimeter there ...
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• YOG: Men’s Biathlon 10km Pursuit—Homberg delivers Gold for Germany, Bittersweet 7th for Canada’s Stuart Harden

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  SEEFELD IN TIROL, Austria Canadian Stuart Harden in the finish pen, moments before he learned of his 2 minute penalty In his address to the competitors and spectators who packed the bleachers of the Bergisel stadium during the Opening Ceremonies of the inaugural Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, IOC ...
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• Curling

  
  BerlinRomExpress — Authority: 112
  A vase with the colors of today’s walk along the Rhine: blue like the sky, lime-green like the recently flooded meadows and gray like the low silhouette of the barges. The sun brought temperatures down, is it the start of Winter, at last? Icy mornings, anyone? And come the evening, MeinMann and I, curling up with ...
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• American Men Unable to Capitalize on Sprint Success, Burke Leads with 16th in Nove Mesto Pursuit

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  Tim Burke led the U.S. team in Nove Mesto today. Photo: NordicFocus/USBA. With the U.S. men’s team notching their best day ever in Saturday’s sprint , hopes were high that the team could place athletes in the top ten or even the top five in today’s pursuit. But although the Americans were frequently close, ...
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• Shipulin Moves Up To Take Pursuit Victory; Target Malfunction, Subsequent Adjustment Break Up Fourcades’ Podium Party

  
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  Simon Fourcade of France, here competing in Hochfilzen in December, was bumped from the podium when officials gave Germanys Arnd Peiffer a time credit due to a malfunctioning target. Photo: NordicFocus/Fischer. When Norway’s Emil Hegle Svendsen starts a pursuit race in bib 1, it’s a pretty good bet that he’ll ...
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• YOG Day Three Recap: Double Duty for the Double-Hitters in Seefeld

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  –SEEFELD IN TIROL, Austria The Seefeld Biathlon Stadium: Garnished with blue skies and white Alps It was a busy day for the double hitters today in Seefeld during the second day of competition at the Youth Olympic Games. Bluebird sky, calm wind, and perfect tracks delivered the type of conditions that race ...
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• Currier Surprises With 6th Place in Nove Mesto World Cup, Leads U.S. To Best Day Ever

  
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  A smiling Currier after finishing sixth in the 10 k sprint. Photo: NordicFocus/USBA. After a frustrating individual race on Thursday, in which the top finish was 44 th , the U.S. men’s biathlon team was left with two choices: wallow, or rebound for a great day Saturday. Luckily, the men in red, white, and blue ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bjornsen So Close, Yet So Far in 31st-Place Sprint Qualifier: “It’s Kind of a Bummer “

  
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  Sadie Bjornsen (USA) midway through the sprint qualifier in Milan. So far this season, Sadie Bjornsen has been on a quest to make the heats in a World Cup sprint. And while her silver medal with Kikkan Randall in the team sprint in Dusseldorf, Germany was more than she had expected, she still hasn’t crossed her ...
  2 weeks ago

• Norways Svendsen wins biathlon World Cup event

  
  Washington Examiner — Authority: 683
  The Associated Press The Associated Press NOVE MESTO, Czech Republic ...
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• In Nove Mesto’s Blizzard of Deteriorating Conditions, Zaitseva Keeps Clean and Russia Places 3 in Top 6

  
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  Russias Olga Zaitseva, before things turned nasty. Photo: NordicFocus/Fischer. This year’s World Cup biathlon schedule has presented a confusing dichotomy: it seems like races are either characterized by a lack or snow, or too much of it – sometimes at the same venue, just days apart. While panning television ...
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• Perfect Shooting Brings Russia’s Makoveev First World Cup Win

  
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  Russias Andrei Makoveev on course. Photo: NordicFocus/Fischer. If there’s one race in biathlon where shooting really, really matters, it’s probably the individual format. The distances are the longest on the circuit – 15 k for women and 20 k for men – but the penalties for missed shots are so harsh that even ...
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• Makarainen Gets Birthday Win in Nove Mesto 15 k – With Photo Gallery

  
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  By this time last year, Finland’s Kaisa Makarainen had won two World Cups, podiumed in five more, and sat atop the rankings on the World Cup. The 2011-12 season is shaping up differently, not just for Makarainen, but for the other women as well. On Wednesday Makarainen became the fifth athlete – each from a ...
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• Andrei Makoveev wins biathlon World Cup event

  
  Yeas and Nays — Authority: 128
  The Associated Press The Associated Press NOVE MESTO, Czech Republic Russias Andrei Makoveev shot flawlessly Thursday to earn his first biathlon ...
  2 weeks ago

• After Rainy, Warm Weekend, Oberhof Finally Blasted With Snow During Men’s Relay; “Hurricane On The Range”, Says Bailey

  
  FasterSkier.com — Authority: 128
  Racers on the start line were indistinguishable through the heavy snow that battered the Oberhof stadium.   When Thursday’s men’s relay in Oberhof, Germany kicked off, the television cameras could barely even show the start. After days of rain and warm conditions, the snow gods of Thuringia finally decided to ...
  3 weeks ago

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