Talk:Biathlon
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[edit] American 2006 Olympic team
Michael "Moose" Votta will be providing full coverage of the U.S. biathlon Olympic team for Stats, LLC. --Anonymous
[edit] How about a 'Top 30' table
Do you think it would be a good idea to add a table with a list of the biathletes for each country, maybe just the top 30 in the world cup rankings, or maybe more comprehensive? --Anonymous
- Hmm, perhaps we should add two tables: one 'historic' ('all-time great' biathletes) and one 'contemporary'? Keep in mind, though, that detailed information is easily obtained in the World Ch.ships, Olympic medalists, and World Cup winners articles, so in any case I think the general biathlon article should only have one or two concise tables. --Wernher 18:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pictures
This is not an American olympic Page! Pictures of athletes from more than one country would show some internationalism. --Anonymous
- The Wikimedia community would be happy if you'd take some pictures of a biathalon and release the photographs under the GFDL or a similar license and upload them to Commons, so they can be used here and in other projects. It just happens that the US biathalon team is pretty much completely made of members of the US military, and these photographs of them were taken by US military personal during the performance of their duties, thus the images are public domain. These images are a matter of using what is available, not of supporting a particular team. I just thought that actual photogrpahs of fairly recent biathalons was better than a stamp of what a biathalon looked like decades ago as an illustration for this article. Gentgeen 09:40, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Blind Biathlon
If anyone knows anything about, it would be great if they could mention something about biathlon for the blind. All I know is that it exists. --Anonymous
- AFAIK, blind biathletes use an audio based aiming system in order to hit (hopefully) the targets---headset sound level increasing in inverse proportion to the aiming point's distance from the chosen target's bull's eye (i.e., the closer to the target, the louder the sound). As in XC skiing, blind biathletes have individual seeing assistants skiing together with them through the ski track. --Wernher 09:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] International Pictures
Unless only the USA Olympic team competes in the Biathlon, which is not the case, more pictures of biathletes from a variety of nations and nationalities are required.
-Anonymous
You can't get as much crunch with your abs as you can in XC ski because of the rifle on your back. SBD
[edit] Training
Don't try using roller skiing as a way of building your base in the summer. Use it only to keep your muscles tuned. Use Biking or rnning to build your base during the summer. MJC
Running, sorry. MJC
[edit] .22LR is not 5.56mm
google image it, or better yet, wiki it.
[edit] What controversy??
This whole section will be deleted. There is no references, is far to biased, and uses weasel words. Perakhantu 09:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
