The Team events are always a great spectator favourite. In the relay event, one by one, each member of a four-person team skis a leg (6 km for women), tagging the next team member at the completion of her leg. Each athlete skis three legs and must stop twice at the shooting range. In this event, instead of the usual five shots, each athlete is allowed an extra three bullets. If an athlete still misses the target, the athlete must ski a 150-metre penalty lap for each missed shot. With each athlete giving it all to tag off to the next, we always see some wonderful shots of the athletes flopping to the ground barely able to breathe.
Magic corduroy rakes
Fans before the event
Kati Wilhelm
Ann Kristin Flatland
Semerenko
Filmonova
This is our Canadian Biathlon Team for the Team Relay, They are a very young team and are learning and improving every time they do a race.
Megan Imrie
Zina Kocher
Rosanne Crawford, (yes Chandra's sister)
Megan Tandy
Canadian Fans
Zaitseva Celibrating
Bailly checking her blind spot
Some fans in biathlon have become legendary, Norbert can be seen at almost every World Cup and regional race he can get to.
Paul, Hakan, Norbert, Reece, Bjorn Ivar
Norbert the Uber fan 310 pins and counting
Norbert would like to know where his friend Per Vik is
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