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Extractions: HISTORY Unlike many other winter sports, biathlon can be traced to prehistoric time. Biathlon arose from the basic need to hunt while traveling quickly over snow. Rock paintings dating back to the Neolithic age, around 3,000 BC, depict hunters with bows and arrows moving on sliding timber. 1700 to 1718: The modern sport develops from cross-country soldiers who patrol the borders of the Scandinavian countries during the Great Scandinavian War. Norway helps begin the tradition of the competitive biathlon. Two Norwegian cross-country guard companies organize the first recorded biathlon competition. The Norwegian military holds a race in Oslo. The Norwegian King's Guard unit hosts a race similar to the one in 1912. The King's Guard race still takes place annually. Biathlon, called "military patrol," appears as a demonstration sport at the first Olympic Winter Games, held in Chamonix, France. Organizers drop biathlon from the Olympics due to anti-military sentiment from World War II. Sweden proposes to call the sport biathlon and keep participation open for civilians.
Extractions: Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won three individual events in addition to the team gold. AP MIDWAY, Utah (Ticker) The star brought out the king and was given the royal treatment by his teammates. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen on Wednesday became the third athlete in Winter Olympic history to win at least four gold medals in one appearance, anchoring Norway's 4x7.5-meter biathlon team to victory. Expecting the historic achievement, Norwegian King Harald was one of the 15,000-plus fans to brave a driving snowstorm at Soldier Hollow. The king wasn't disappointed by his star athlete, who became the first Winter Olympian to win four golds since American speed skater Eric Heiden claimed a record five in 1980 at Lake Placid. "This is very special," said Bjoerndalen, who swept the three men's individual events and joined Soviet speed skater Lydia Skoblikova as the only other four-time gold medalists in Winter Olympic history. Frank Luck anchored Germany to a silver medal in 1 hour, 24 minutes, 27.6 seconds, and Raphael Poiree ran the final leg for bronze medalist France, which finished in 1:24:36.6.
Welcome To The Duluth Biathlon Education Association biathlon is a Winter olympic Sport which combines cross country skiing with the biathlon concept evolved from two activities which have a long history http://www.duluthbiathlon.com/biathlon.htm
Extractions: (excerpted from Allen Takahashi at: allenbt@biathlon.net Biathlon is a Winter Olympic Sport which combines cross country skiing with precision target shooting. There is also a warm weather variant called Summer Biathlon which replaces skiing with running. In a typical Winter race, a Biathlete is required to ski with his or her rifle over a set distance to a shooting range, where five shots at five knockdown targets 50 m down range are taken from prone position. Depending on the format, either a time penalty or penalty laps are assessed for missed shots. The racer then skis another loop, and comes back to the shooting range for another set of shots - this time from a standing stance. Again penalties are assessed for missed shots. The biathlete then skis a final loop to complete the race. A more complete description of the various race formats may be found here Though a seemingly unlikely combination of events - one is an aerobic activity which requires strength, speed, and endurance; the other is a passive activity which requires concentration and a steady hand (difficult after you've been skiing all out!), the biathlon concept evolved from two activities which have a long history - hunting and winter warfare.
Ibu History Military patrol a demonstration sport in the first olympic Winter Games, Chamonix,FRA The concept of Modern Winter biathlon introduced in Macolin, SUI http://www.wintersport.as/biathlon/history.htm
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... 2004 games BIATHLON - US Men 15th in Olympic Biathlon Relay // by Jerry Kokesh - U.S. Biathlon Association (802-654-7833) // February 20, 2002 The final biathlon competition of the Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games found the US Men's 4 X 7.5K Relay team in 15th place out of 19 teams at the Soldier Hollow finish line today. On a day with wet, heavy snow falling, all of the athletes struggled on the course, but the US men also lost their shooting touch. They needed 18 extra shots to complete the race and incurred 2 penalties. Jeremy Teela, of Anchorage, AK led off in a relay competition for the first time in his career. Admitting that he was "nervous," Teela needed all 3 extra rounds to clean prone. He then skied himself back into the race, but used the 3 extra rounds and incurred 1 penalty. He said that the skiing was "OK, because we have all of the right skis and were prepared for the new snow. But I really hated to miss that standing shot."
United States Olympic Committee - Olympic History Winter Team Sites, biathlon, Bobsled, Curling, Figure Skating olympic OverviewHistory, facts and figures; AllTime Team USA Medals Summer Winter http://www.usoc.org/12690.htm
Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... usada Olympic History Archaeologists believe the ancient Olympic Games began more than 4,000 years ago in Olympia, a valley in Greece. Recorded history of the Games dates back to 776 B.C., when the five days of sporting events were primarily religious ceremonies. For the first known 13 Games, the competition consisted of single foot race of 200 yards, which was the approximate length of the Olympic stadium. The Games expanded to include additional contests and reached their height by fifth century BC. Men competed, in the nude, in running, wrestling, pentathlon, horse riding and chariot races. Why in the nude well, to keep the ladies out of the action. Women were barred from watching or competing, and were even put to death if they were caught at the early Games. Today, not only are women allowed to watch and compete, they are encouraged to do so. Check out a few of our historical Olympic pages here at usolympicteam.com.
Extractions: Triathlon is guaranteed one of the most spectacular backdrops for an Olympic debut in Games history; Sydney Harbour and the Opera House. The women will race on the opening morning of the Games, followed by the men the next morning. Although the sport is technically just 27 years old - competitions dating back to California in 1973 before the Hawaiian Ironman challenge, which is regarded as the sport's true origin in 1978 - its individual components are, of course, ancient: swimming, cycling, running. Collins enjoyed himself so much that he decided it would be a good idea to combine Hawaii's Waikiki Roughwater Swim, Around-Oahu Bike Race and Honolulu Marathon as one event; that meant an exhausting schedule involving a 3.85 kilometres open water swim, a 179 kilometres cycle and a 42 kilometres run. The Ironman challenge was born.
Washingtonpost.com: Biathlon 19, leading her team to victory in the 30kilometer relay and becoming the biggestmedal winner in olympic biathlon history with six. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/sport/biathlon
Extractions: Competing in a sport that is, at best, on the fringe in the United States, Ntala Skinner and Stacey Wooley routinely trounce the competition at home. When they go up against the better-financed programs abroad, however, the situation changes radically . "I'm still improving," Wooley says. "I can be in the top 10. I'm world class. Otherwise I wouldn't be here."
1960 Olympics Sweden s Klas Lestander won the first olympic biathlon competition. history Corner)(sprinter became first woman to win three gold medals at the olympics http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0300765.html
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2002 Winter Olympics - Winter Olympics History Winter olympics history. Salt Lake City Campaign Calgary olympic Winter Games.SLOC Project Manager for biathlon Lyle Nelson carried the US flag at the http://www.utah.com/olympics/history.htm
Extractions: Salt Lake City competes against Anchorage, Alaska; Reno, Nevada; and Lake Placid, New York, to become the USOC's candidate city for the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Winter Games. Anchorage is chosen the USA candidate but loses to Albertville, France for the 1992 Games and to Lillehammer, Norway for the 1994 Games.
About Eberlestock olympic Roots. Glen Eberle was a member of the US National biathlon Team for For the first time in olympic history, in the 2006 Games the athletes will http://www.eberlestock.com/About Eberlestock.htm
Extractions: Send some cheer to our troops: Soldiersupport.net ONLINE STORE SSL Secure Online Shopping... Or, if you prefer the old- fashioned way, give us a call: Order Lines: SPECIAL OFFERS Thanks for your interest! Don't have Adobe Reader? Get it Free!: Olympic Roots. Glen Eberle was a member of the US National Biathlon Team for eight years, and a member of the 1984 US Olympic Team. Biathlon is a grueling sport which combines the opposing disciplines of cross country skiing and rifle marksmanship. In the old days, traditional biathlon rifles were heavy, weighing over 11 pounds, and they had a fatal weakness in the pistol grip area which caused them to break easily if the athlete fell on them a not uncommon occurrence for those rocketing around on skinny skis. Following the 1985 World Championships, Glen decided that it was time to make some changes to the albatross hed been packing around. He decided to build a better gunstock. His initial idea was to simply make it stronger. As he began studying the concept, he realized that there were opportunities for weight savings as well, and he believed that if you built the rifle right, you could still shoot a lighter gun as accurately as a heavy one. His work led him to win a research grant from the United States Olympic Committee. With this in hand, he began a consultation with engineers, biomechanics experts, and NASA scientists. He developed a design which combines the best qualities of wood with the outstanding qualities of modern composite materials. It was considerably lighter than a standard wood stock, and virtually unbreakable.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS biathlon biathlon history Women s biathlon made its olympic debut in 1992as a full medal sport in Albertville. biathlon events consisted of a http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=BT&sportCode=
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES Magnar SOLBERG The Only biathlon Champion to Defend His Title Solberg remainsthe only biathlete in olympic history to successfully defend his title in http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=73331
Brief History Of The Olympic Games Brief history of the olympic Games. Ancient olympic Games Chronology of athletic Games included the biathlon, 10kilometer walk, baseball, and judo. http://www.nostos.com/olympics/
Extractions: Brief History of the Olympic Games Ancient Olympic Games The Olympic Games begun at Olympia in Greece in 776 BC. The Greek calendar was based on the Olympiad, the four-year period between games. The games were staged in the wooded valley of Olympia in Elis. Here the Greeks erected statues and built temples in a grove dedicated to Zeus, supreme among the gods. The greatest shrine was an ivory and gold statue of Zeus. Created by the sculptor Phidias, it was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Scholars have speculated that the games in 776 BC were not the first games, but rather the first games held after they were organized into festivals held every four years as a result of a peace agreement between the city-states of Elis and Pisa. The Eleans traced the founding of the Olympic games to their King Iphitos, who was told by the Delphi Oracle to plant the olive tree from which the victors' wreaths were made. According to Hippias of Elis, who compiled a list of Olympic victors c.400 BC, at first the only Olympic event was a 200-yard dash, called a stadium. This was the only event until 724 BC, when a two-stadia race was added. Two years later the 24-stadia event began, and in 708 the pentathlon was added and wrestling became part of the games. This pentathlon, a five-event match consisted of running, wrestling, leaping, throwing the discus, and hurling the javelin. In time boxing, a chariot race, and other events were included.
MPAGB - The History Of Modern Pentathlon The oldest olympic gold medallist in the Modern Pentathlon to date is the RussianPavel In 1960, biathlon (cross country skiing and rifle shooting) was http://www.mpagb.org.uk/aboutpentathlon/aboutmp_history.php
Extractions: Search WWW MPAGB August edition of UIPM Newsletter now available. August edition of PPS now available. New Riding Certificates added to Downloads page MPAGB Calendar modified to enable selection of Events at Regional level. Events with more details display symbol. Profiles for Performance Athletes and Talented Athletes added. The Ancient Games The Pentathlon was introduced for the first time at the 18th Olympiad in 708 BC, probably by the Spartans as a method of training soldiers. It consisted of running the length of the stadium, jumping, throwing the spear, throwing the discus and wrestling. The Pentathlon held a position of unique importance in the Games and was considered to be the climax, with the winner ranked as "Victor Ludorum”. Admiration for the ancient Pentathlon was shared by the founder of the Modern Olympic Movement, Baron Pierre de Coubertin , who expressed his support for the concept of a Pentathlon most eloquently and forcefully in his Memoires Olympiques, published in 1931. From 1909, he tried to have the event introduced into the Olympic programme and, after two failed attempts, Pentathlon’s moment came at the 14 th session of the International Olympic Committee in Budapest in 1911, when as the Baron stated: "The Holy Ghost of sport illuminated my colleagues and they accepted a competition to which I attach great importance.”
Women Warriors - Sports - Biathlon The first olympic gold medal for an individual biathlon race was presented to Klas Modern day highlights of biathlon history are presented as follows http://www.womenwarriors.ca/en/sports/profile.asp?id=47
Winter History The first olympic biathlon, a combonation of skiing and shooting, The US winwas perhaps the biggest upset in winter olympic history. http://www.fccps.k12.va.us/gm/webs-2002/gr8-3/hillary/winterhistory.html
Extractions: History of the Winter Olympics The first Winter Olympics were first called the International Winter Sports week and only consisted of five events, nordic skiing, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey, and bobsledding. The Modern Olympics Founder, Baron Pierre se Coubertin made objections to a winter olympics, however complaints from him would be overridden as the first Olympic Winter Games started in Charminoix, France. The 16-nation field was dominated by the Scandinavian countries. They were expected to win many medals in the winter sports. Norway won 27 of the 43 medals combined which included all the nordic events and four of the five speed skating events. Although the Scandinavians were the heavy favorites for medals AMerican Charles Jewtraw won the first event in the games in 500 meters, a huge upset. Perhaps the most memorable moment was the bronze medal awarded the American ski jumper Anders Haugen. However due to a scoring error he didn't recieve his medal until 1974. The 1928 olympics opened in St. Moritz. The only good thing about these Olympics was that Sonja Henie of Norway won three gold medals and Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden set his third straight victory in the Winter Games. The warm weather of these games destroyed the bobsledding courses and cross-country skiing runs slowing them. The 10,000 meter speed skating race was cancelled due to the slush left on the rink. The 1932 were held in Lake Placid. American speed-skater Irving Jaffee set a record for the 10,000-meter and won gold just to lose it when the event was cancelled because of thawing conditions. There were again five skating races and for the first time in Olympic History they were run as races instead of an ice event.
Biathlon News, information, biathlon courses, history, world competitions, and forum. Trains athletes and coaches in the sport of biathlon, the olympic sport http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/dir/Sports/Multi-Sports/Biathlon/
