BIATHLON


A Biathlon is a winter sport combines cross-country skiing with rifle sharpshooting. Competitors must successfully complete 3 to 4 loops around the track and shoot at five targets at the conclusion of each loop. Each player must attempt to finish the course in the shortest amount of time to win the event, and any shots that are off-target result in extra time or distance being added to the contestant’s total skiing distance or time. It is a very exciting, fast paced sport that challenges the athlete to a high level. It is considered to be Europe’s top winter spectator sport. It originated in Scandinavian hunting. The biathlon debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1960 Winter Olympics, held in California, with the 20km individual men’s event.


The combination of two very contradictory disciplines, skiing and shooting, in the same competition confronts an athlete with a very demanding challenge. Cross-country racing requires intense, full out physical exertion over an extended period of time while shooting demands extremely fine control and stability. Biathlon is a sport that requires technique and stamina in abundance. It requires equipment necessary for skiing such as skis, ski poles, binding and boots, as well as a small-bore rifle.


Biathlons have five types of events with different rules. These are the, Individual, Sprints, Pursuits, Mass Starts, and Relays. Biathletes need to invest the same significant number of hours as regular Nordic skiers into physical training, and they also have to spend a lot of time shooting. Biathlon also has an excellent safety record. Because Biathlon includes shooting, stringent regulations govern all actions of the competitors with regard to shooting safety and rifle handling. Even the smallest violation of a safety regulation results in a disqualification. As a consequence of the very strictly enforced safety rules.


Training for Biathlon ends up being a fairly time-consuming venture. A certain number of workouts are done as “combos” of shooting and hard physical effort; other times the shooting is done as slowfire where the focus is shooting position and technique, leaving the hard physical exertion to a separate workout. Once you’ve tried biathlon, it tends to 토토사이트 keep you coming back. There’s an irresistible urge to try again, and again, always hoping that you’ll hit more targets the next time.