The first competitions of the biathlon season are in the books! It's time to get together and chat about all of the amazing action from Kontiolahti and a little news/speculation as welli! This includes: - A week of underdogs, fan favorites, and fun stories! - A trip to the doctor's office to discuss the Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold heart situation - …

We just couldn't wait for a full week of competition to end before we had to start talking biathlon again! We got together, initially on Sunday, but then again on Monday to discuss all of the relay action and the Men's Short Individual including: - Julia Simon's injury and what we know as of recording time - The Soerum Mixed Relay sprint and the Fa…

Just barely before the season starts we reconvened to discuss the recent racing in Sjusojoen and Idre Fjaell and discuss the upcoming season! A few of the highlights: - Over view of the selection races - Discussing the Norwegian depth - Overview of the rosters and any surprises that we saw - Discussing the current state of Canadian biathlon - A few…

While battling illness at the final training camp in Finland, American/New Zealand biathlete Campbell Wright joined us for our final preseason interview! Campbell is a hilarious interview and we had an immensely good time. Of course we discussed his unique journey into biathlon from New Zealand, his transfer to the American team, his successes alon…

This week on the pod Czechia biathlete Jakub Stvrtecky joins us! He was so gracious to share his time from training camp in Finland to share his story! This week we discussed: - His story coming up alongside his teammates in Czechia biathlon - His summer of training and how he feels coming into the 2024-2025 season - Shooting prone vs. standing - H…

In our latest interview in the leadup to the 2024-2025 biathlon season, Hanna Kebinger returns! Always a fun interview this episode involves more laughing than we have done in a bit! It includes: - Discussion on her unfortunate 23-24 season - Dealing with health struggles, both physical and mental - Her road to recovery this summer including findin…

Jacques Jefferies graciously and bravely battled through a sinus infection and a bloody nose to join us for an interview! Jacques is a really valuable mind for the biathlon community as he has a very good grasp of the big issues biathlon will be grappling with in the coming years. As Jacques battled through we discussed: - His young biathlon career…

As the 2024-2025 season rapidly approaches Polish Women's Head Coach Tobias Torgersen joined us from team training camp in Lenzerheide! In this interview we discuss: - Thoughts on Lenzerheide and particularly the potential trickiness on the range - Coaching anxiety as the season approaches - What led to the Polish women having a surge in the 2023-2…

Justus Strelow, coming off of a very exciting City Biathlon race in Dresden, joined us from the German training camp in the French Alps for a wonderful interview. He as an amazing guest and gave us tremendous insight into: - His intro into biathlon and his journey to the top level of the sport - His lifelong affinity for shooting and how fast and h…

The first of our preseason interviews is here and it's Regina Ermits! This was a joy! With Regina we discussed: - Regina vs. Kalev in the battle of the Ermits - How is she so good at standing shooting? - A new training regimen and "finding her voice" leading to 7 of the 9 best finishes of her career in 2023-2024 - Her amazing 2024 Nove Mesto Worlds…

The IBU has floated changes to how start bibs are allocated for Sprint and Individual races and it's generating some great conversation. We do our best to lay out what the changes would be as well as the perspectives of various athletes, coaches, and media members. We also share our own thoughts. Then we talk about the phenomenal Czechia summer nat…

It's a touch late but we needed to catch up about the first half of the summer biathlon racing. We primarily focused on the recently completed 2024 Summer Worlds in Otepää but also briefly discussed Blink, as well as the Swedish, Belgian, and US Summer biathlon National Championships. Tune in soon for interviews and discussions on Martin Fourcade F…

It is truly a quiet time in the world of biathlon but we still found a few things to chat about including: - It's wedding season! - RJ's EXTENSIVE breakdown of Emilien Jacquelin's shooting which is now published: https://biathlonanalytics.com/would-changing-high-risk-high-reward-strategy-pay-off-for-emilien-jacquelin/ - A preview of Jordan's Ultima…

This one is for the rifle nerds out there! We had on Logan Pletz and after a short discussion on his background in biathlon it turned into a deep deep deeeeeeeeep dive on rifle construction, particularly with 3D printing. Logan was so generous sharing his adventures in rifle construction including the not so successful trials. Even if you're not a …

We were so fortunate to be joined by the author of one of the truly unique stories in biathlon: Tara Geraghty-Moats. Sure, you might know that she was once a Nordic Combiner, but what else do you know about her journey? We discuss her start in Nordic sports at a very young age and the winding path that has brought her here to the IBU Biathlon World…

Surprise! We are back after just 1 week! This was actually a surprise for us as well as we didn't know we were recording it until we started. Today we discuss: - RJ's recent deep dive on if any national wax teams or ski brands were particularly successful in this most recent season - Coaching carousel including the Ricco Gross update, the Swiss coa…

It's time to catch up on all of the biathlon news from May 2024 including: - Dorothea Wierer continues through 2026 Olympics - Stina Nilsson back to XC skiing - Discussion of Rico Gross going to the Bulgarian team (this was recorded just hours before it was announced that he's not going to the Bulgarian team) - Czech team coaching changes - Early r…

It's time to talk more biathlon! Let be honest it's always time to talk more biathlon. We reconvened to discuss: - French, Swiss, Swedish, and Norwegian national championships - A little bit of biathlon news - Was there a connection between ski brand and ski speed this season - Jordan's connection with Tarjei Boe - A preview/overview of some breakt…

It's time to recap the 2023-2024 Biathlon World Cup season! Here in part 2 we discuss the women including: - Lou Jeanmonnot announcing herself as a contender now and in the future - Lisa Vittozzi finishing off one of the most remarkable career comebacks in biathlon history - Lena Haecki-Gross in year 10 of her career becomes the best Swiss woman in…

It's our 100th Episode! We recap our journey of where we started and everything that has happened over the last 100 episodes. A big THANK YOU! To everybody who has listened and joined us along the way! We also cover 2 pieces of big news: 1) Christian Gow, Biathlon Canada mainstay, announced his retirement 2) Tarjei Boe is back! Please check out my …

It's time to recap the 2023-2024 Biathlon World Cup season! We broke our recap up in 2 parts rather than giving you one massive nearly 3 hour podcast. Here in part 1 we discuss the men including: - JT Boe's 5th Overall title was better than you may have thought - Some young men showing off including Eric Perrot, Tommaso Giacomel, and Campbell Wrigh…

We head back to Canmore for one more episode! This time around we do our normal discussion about the racing but this time we have interviews! We discuss: - Exhausted athletes - JT Boe winning the Globe in style - Anna Gandler continues to shine - The French and Italians close out the season very strong - Lisa Vittozzi and Lou Jeanmonnot giving us a…

In part 1 of our recap of the conclusion of the World Cup biathlon season in Canmore we have story time with RJ! He shares the tales of his weekend mixing and mingling with fans, athletes and coaches and gives us the sense of what it was like on the ground as the greatest biathletes in the world converged on Canada. In this episode we hear: - His d…

Biathlon returns to North America and the racing was absolutely electric. It absolutely left us breathless so we had to wait and record a little later so we can recover! This week we discussed: - The epic Men's Pursuit race including JT Boe and the Emilien Jacquelin experience - The Lou Jeanmonnot weekend and what would have to happen for her to wi…

It was a rainy and fairly gross weekend in Oslo, but it was another thrilling weekend of racing! This week on the pod we discussed all of the action including: - The really exciting state of the Overall races with it being completely undecided with 2 weekends to go - Did Tandrevold fix her shooting and is she now the prohibitive favorite? If not he…

Anna Gandler was so kind to grace us with her time this week! We covered many fun topics with the up and coming Austrian biathlete including: - Her spectacular 2024 World Championships in Nove Mesto by every aspect of racing. - Getting a new rifle this season and learning to adapt to it. - A delicious discussion on German/Austrian snacks - Running …

After a thrilling conclusion to the 2023-2024 Biathlon World Championships in Nove Mesto our heads were absolutely spinning. As we covered the first half of the events on part 1, after covering some big picture take aways we tried to focus on the races and stories from the 2nd half starting with the Individual races. Some of the items discussed inc…

The Nove Mesto World Championships are here and we couldn't be more excited. There were already so many stories and things to discussed so this is an absolutely jam packed episode including: - Waxing once again taking center stage - Julia Simon is absolutely unbeatable right now - Sturla Holm Laegreid's emotional gold medal - JT Boe's comeback in t…

Come take a lap with us on our most unusual (and hopefully fun!) episode to date. - We start out by discussing the actual racing that occurred this week on the IBU Cup and Junior Cup including Johan-Olav Botn, Simon Kaiser, and the dominant Austrians on the Juniors level. - We discuss the sad news of the Trevor Kiers retirement - We do some preview…

During what was supposed to be a bit of a quiet time in biathlon there was simply too much news! We dusted off the mics and got together to discuss the really important news of the week including: - The heartbreaking and infuriating story of Joanne Reid's sexual abuse and harassment by a member of the US Biathlon wax tech team - The Youth Olympic G…

Shortly following the completion of the racing in Antholz we got together to chat about all of the action from the week including: - Lena Haecki-Gross getting her first win! - Julia Simon is coming on really strong - But don't lose sight of Lou Jeanmonnot! - Johannes Dale-Skjevdal's insane last lap in the Mass Start - A bit of Norwegian men's team …

After one of the thrilling complete weekends of biathlon racing in the last several years we of course put together our longest podcast of the season. There was just so much to talk about! Breaking from what has become our normal back and forth we decided to go race by race to make sure we didn't miss any of the big moments incuding: - Simon vs. El…

It's 2024 and Biathlon is back! We reconvene to discuss all the action from Oberhof including: - The new Eurovision site - Weather and climate affecting biathlon - Even more success for the Norwegian men including Stroemsheim's victorious weekend and Laegreid is back - Doll gets another win! - The resplendent and dominant French women - The wild wo…

Recorded the night before racing started in Lenzerheide, Polish Women's Head Coach Tobias Torgersen very generously granted us far more time than we had any right to expect or a fantastic interview. In this discussion we touched on: - Coach Torgersen's personal history including growing up a fan of cross country and biathlon racing - We discuss his…

Merry Christmas! We got together just before the holiday weekend to share our thoughts on the first trimester and all of the action from Oestersund, Hochfilzen, and Lenzerheide! We discussed many many things including: - Did wax affect the racing so far this season? - Our favorite moments of the season (so far!) - Our thoughts on some of the top me…

The World Cup makes the first ever visit to Lenzerheide and we are here to break it all down! In this episode we discuss - The amazing Justine Braisaz-Bouchet weekend - JT Boe is back on top - Emilien Jacquelin is Emilien Jacquelin - Norwegian men had some adventures with the rifle and RJ gives a breakdown of the rules issues at play and exactly wh…

Another week of exciting racing down and another new podcast to recap it! We touch on a number or big things that happened in Hochfilzen including: - COVID is causing havoc - Lena Haecki-Gross' HUGE weekend - Tarjei Boe in yellow?!? - Is JT Boe all the way back? - Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold's growing into the Norwegian leader - Elvira Oeberg looks …

The first full week of biathlon is in the books so we reconvene to discuss the latest action! If you missed part 1 which came out late last week it covers the mixed relays, the individuals, and the women's relay. In this show we talk about: - The freezing weather, wax, the skis and how it all affected the racing - The Sturla Holm Laegreid question …

Jordan and RJ get together for a phrenetic recap of the first five events of the IBU World Cup season. This episode was recorded just after the Women's Relay in Oestersund but before the Men's Relay, so we discuss everything from season opening Single Mixed Relay through the Women's Relay on Wednesday. Fair warning, we were REALLY excited about thi…

Danish athlete, coach, and Danish TV2 national biathlon commentator Kristian Wulff joins to help us prepare for the upcoming season! We get right into the #1 issue of the upcoming season, waxing and how it will dramatically affect the racing. We also touch on a few of Kristian's other stories to watch, some under the radar athletes, and his predict…

The biathlon season is finally here! This is part 1 of our 2 part season preview. We start out with a look back at some of the big stories of last year including JT Boe and QFM as well as the new generation of biathlon on the men's side and Julia Simon, Wierer and Vittozzi coming on strong, and Elvira Oeberg looking not quite like herself. Then we …

In the conclusion to our fantastic talk with rising Swiss biathlon start Niklas Hartweg we hit a number of really great topics including - Listening to your body for training and competition - The new generation of Swiss biathletes and coaches changing the team - What it's like racing in Switzerland - The best snacks - Hartweg's plans for a Swiss k…

As the 2023-2024 season rapidly approaches we continued our efforts to interview some of the top new names in biathlon, this time with Niklas Hartweg. This episode starts right in the middle of a discussion between Nik and RJ about Hartweg's artistic side. It was going on before we started recording and because it was so interesting I just hit reco…

There is only one way to describe Hanna Kebinger: Persistence. Join us for this fabulous conversation as we see how persistence truly has paid off for Hanna time and time again. We all cheered along with her as she made her triumphant breakthrough last spring but after this, you'll be even more of a fan. This was truly a delight!…

Part 3 is the conclusion to our massive interview with Clare Egan. Here we get into the fun stuff like: - Why does Clare love pigs? - Did she wear a knit wool bra in Beijing? - Her personal Tour de France travels!Por penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

Part 2 of our awesome discussion with Clare Egan! In this section we get DEEEEEP into some big topics including: 1) Doping (5:35) 2) Relations with Russian and Belarussian federations/athletes (19:20) 3) Climate change (31:00) 4) Training for the big shot (57:00) Part 3 coming later this week!Por penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

Baiba Bendika returns to tell us all about how her life has changed over the last 9 months or so!Por penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

We did it! Clare Egan, the most requested and recommended interview joined us for a HUGE 3 part interview. In part 1 we focus mostly on Clare's personal history. We talk about growing up in cross country skiing, creating the XC ski club at her university, and her auspicious intro into biathlon. Then we discuss her IBU career including some truly in…

After Matthias went back to Germany in April to work with youth biathletes in Bayerwald (Bavarian forrest) we caught up with him. Unfortunately Jordan had to deal with a dog getting hit (the dog's recovering from a broken shoulder) so he was unable to make it. Part 1 of this interview is largely about the comparison of the Canadian and German "biat…

We caught up with former biathlete from the Canadian national team AND our first ever summer guest on the podcast, Scott Gow. We hear from him what keeps him busy these days, how he transitions from athlete to a "normal person". We get interrupted by another surprise former biathlete, we talk IBU and biathlon developments and there's more that you …