The shooting aspect is a wild card in a cross-country ski race, requiring athletes to use drastically different skill sets. By Victor Mather A decathlon has 10 events, a heptathlon has seven, and a ...

Perhaps no other sport at the 2022 Winter Olympics features more incongruous components than the biathlon: one part cross-country skiing, one part rifle shooting. It’s an event that marries two ...

After solving the mysteries of Michael Phelps' iPod playlist, showering divers and disappearance of Cullen Jones in Beijing, the Fourth-Place Medal Investigative Unit is back for the 2010 Winter ...

Biathlon combines two sports – cross-country skiing and shooting – into one race. Athletes race around a closed course carrying a rifle strapped to their backs, and stop at designated spots to shoot ...