Biathlon combines cross-country skiing with precision rifle shooting. The sport, which originated from military training exercises in Scandinavia, is a real crowd-pleaser filled with tension and drama ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Some liken biathlon to running up 20 flights of stairs and then trying to thread a needle. Skiing ...

Biathlon is one of the most-watched winter sports in Europe and will be one of the highlights for many fans at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. It's less popular in the United States — a rare ...

For pure tension, there are few sports that can compete with biathlon which combines the gruelling endurance of cross-country skiing with the dead-eye precision of rifle shooting. Borne out of the ...

A snowblower manufacturer, Ariens, has built a premier biathlon training facility in Brillion, Wisconsin. This new venue aims to grow the sport of biathlon in the Midwest and develop future Olympic ...

Biathlon participants practice shooting laser rifles at targets from the standing position. (Photo provided by GNC) The shooting range of the biathlon course at Whitefish Lake Golf Course. (Photo ...

The performance-enhancing altitude mask that Olympic hopeful Sivert Guttorm Bakken was wearing when he was found dead this week “is not part of the Norwegian Biathlon Association’s organized training ...

Sivert Guttorm Bakken, a rising star in Norwegian biathlon and an Olympic hopeful, has died suddenly at the age of 27. His death has shocked the sports world and left the biathlon community in deep ...

He was found dead in his hotel room in Lavaze, in the Trentino region in Italy, Norwegian media said. He was diagnosed with myocarditis in 2022 and took a break from competition at the time. He ...

A Norwegian Olympic hopeful has died. Sivert Guttorm Bakken, a biathlete who was hoping to make the national team for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, died during Olympic training camp in Italy, ...