Olympic good bye to the Biathlets presented with bad conditions – rain till snow and hard deep track…-but today it was for all the same!
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King Ole runs for Gold! Norway wins relay, last Olympic competition
Monday, March 1st, 2010Great Olympic Biathlon Finale: Men´s relay expected with Norwegian challenge!
Friday, February 26th, 2010Norway´s Biathlon team round Olympic Champion Emil Hegle Svendsen and the King of Biathlon, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen announced already weeks befor the Winter Olympics 2010 started, that they will eke out medals in each Olympic battle and of course Gold in the relay of men!
Olympic Biathlon relay of women: Russian-French-Germain Challenge!
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010The last Biathlon competition of women in the Winter Olympics 2010 developed to a Russian-French-Germain Challenge, like the most experts expected.
Russian girls won with great shooting ahead of very fast and well fitted French and hard fighting German.
Finale grande for Biathlon-women: Olympic relay!
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The last Olympic competition is scheduled today at 11:30 PST!
All the best Teams of the World Cup failed in the Games, but start as favorites…
Let´s see, if they can reach their last Olympic aim – the golden relay!
Surprised Russian Ustyugov beated the thirty best Olympians in the Mass start
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Flawless and with swift skiing the Russian Ustyugov took the last possibility to win an Olympic single medal in the Biathlon Mass start and grabbed Gold ahead of France’s Martin Fourcade and Slovakian Pavol Hurajt by more than 10 seconds.
The strong Brother of Simon Fourcade flew by the Austrian Sumann up the hill on the last lap and later catched Hurajt.
Golden Girl Magdalena Neuner finishes her Winter Olympics 2010 with golden Mass start
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Two German and two Rusian Biathlets fightet for Olympic medals in the last lap after clean last shooting.
German powerwoman Neuner ran away, Russians Zaitseva and Medvetseva behind – Hauswald was following and soon catching Medvetseva.
Olympic Biathlon Mass start of men rescheduled!
Sunday, February 21st, 2010The Olympic Mass start of Biathlets has been rescheduled to start on: Feb. 21, 11:00 AM PST.
This will be the last chance of the 30 qualified participants to win an Olympic medal themselves, the next and very last chance for winning in team will be the relay!
Women´s Biathlon Mass start in Winter Olympics 2010-last chance for individual medal!
Sunday, February 21st, 2010Olympia 2010- games over or not, that´s the question…
The Olympic Biathlon Mass start on Sunday, Feb. 21 is the last chance to get one of the much sought-after especial unique Olympic medals alone.
Next and very last Olympic Biathlon competition will be the relay!
Norwegian Double: Svendsen ahead King of Biathlon Bjoerndalen together with Novikov
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Olympic Individual of Biathlets finished with Norwegian double victory: Svendsen ahead his team-mate Bjoerndalen, sharing Olympic Silver Medal with Belarus Novikov.
After compatriot Tora Berger won the women’s Olympic Individual earlier, Svendsen added another Gold for Norway when he finished and Novikov reached the second medal for Belarus after Darya Domracheva´s Bronze in the morning.
Berger sprints for Olympic Gold medal in the Individual of women ahead underdog Khrustaleva
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Whistler Olympic Park, Olympic Biathlon Individual of women: A happy Tora Berger sprinted over the finish line with bib 2 and set the early pace with just one miss on the shooting range and her final time of 40 mins 52.8sec was unbeaten. Olympic Silver medal reached the underdog Elena Khrustaleva and Bronze the strong Belarus Biathlet Darya Domracheva.
Olympic women´s Biathlon Individual: Start deferred to 10:20 local time
Thursday, February 18th, 2010In Callaghan Vallay, in the Whistler Olympic Park all wait for the next Olympic Biathlon competition, the Individual of women. The start will be 20 minutes later because of the rescheduled alpine race.
So the teams have more time to prepare for the oldest Biathlon discipline with high attention on shooting, because each missed target means one penalty minute, that will be added to the finish-time!
Ferry beats Jay and Sumann in the Olympic Biathlon Pursuit of men
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Exciting till the last essential shoots with stronger wind and a lot of penalties! Leading Jay and Ferry left the range together after both missed one of five targets on their fourth and final shoot, and had to circle the 150-metre penalty loop.
They still were way ahead of the pack, and Ferry, who had just the last one miss, quickly pulled away from Jay, who missed alltogether two targets, same as the near Sumann.
Olympic Biathlon Pursuit of women: Golden Neuner, happy Silver Kuzmina
Thursday, February 18th, 2010After surprising and terrefic victory of Slovak Anastazia Kuzmina in the women´s Olympic Sprint and as the only one the German Magdalena Neuner delivered with Silver Medal,
today at the Olympic Pursuit all was assortet!
Olympia 2010 – Men´s Biathlon Pursuit: Norwegian attack expected!
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010After the spectacular Sprint competition with worse conditions the favorite have to attack from behind!
Norwegian Biathlets signalised their attack of Medals on the Olympic Biathlon Pursuit!
Second Svendsen has the best position to beat the high motivated Frenchman Jay, who wants to repeat the Olympic Pursuit success of his team-mate Defrasne, winning Gold in Turin 2006.
Olympia 2010: Womens Biathlon Pursuit – Kuzmina in pole
Monday, February 15th, 201010:30 local time the Womens Olympic Pursuit of the Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Park starts with a surprising leader: Anastazia Kuzmina. Ahead Magdalena Neuner and Marie Dorin she runs for second Olympic Gold.
