Bringing back three of the four biathletes from the gold-medal winning 2002 team, the Germans were the favorite to capture this event again, especially after Pyleva was expelled from the games and stripped of her medal from the 15km. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Six skiers and four biathletes were also taken for drug screens by the IOC as a part of the raid, and the IOC had not yet announced results of those tests. ❋ Unknown (2006)
After disappointing Olympics, U.S. biathletes look forward - USATODAY. com ❋ Unknown (2010)
After disappointing Olympics, U.S. biathletes look forward ❋ Unknown (2010)
German fans see Chinese biathletes pass and yell "Gai-yo," the cheer familiar to anyone who watched a second of Beijing 2008 coverage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They were sometimes described as Olympic biathletes recruited as mercenary sharpshooters by Chechen commanders. ❋ Dave Hurteau (2008)
We never foresaw France winning 11 medals (the model had them at five) but their biathletes came up big. ❋ Matthew Futterman (2010)
Luge hopeful Albert Demchenko and Russia's highly touted biathletes struggled through the early going and finished out of the running. ❋ Richard Boudreaux (2010)
There was an apochryphal story during the 1984 Winter Olympics that the Russian and Finnish biathletes would practice on each other, for real, across the frontier between the two countries. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
The Olympic drug-testing lab was still analyzing samples taken from 10 Austrian biathletes and cross-country skiers in last weekend's raids, the IOC said Wednesday morning. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Walter Mayer, whose presence among Austria's biathletes and cross-country skiers at the Olympics triggered Italian police raids and International Olympic Committee scrutiny, told an Austrian magazine he was the victim of "a plot" linked to his battle with the international skiing federation. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Austria also had the best showing in its long Winter Games history with 23 medals overall, nine of them gold, despite a police raid and unannounced doping tests that targeted some of its cross-country skiers and biathletes. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Six Austrian cross-country skiers and four biathletes were tested. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Heinz Jungwirth, general secretary of the Austrian Olympic Committee, told Austrian media that two biathletes — Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottmann — were kicked off the team after leaving the Olympics after the raids. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Six Austrian cross-country skiers and four biathletes were rousted from their private living quarters late Saturday for unannounced tests. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Austria's Mikhail Botwinov took the bronze, a positive ending for the embattled Austrian cross-country skiers and biathletes who were subjects of a doping investigation by the Italian authorities and International Olympic Committee. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Wolfgang Perner, one of the Austrian biathletes to return home after the raids, told the Austrian news agency APA he left because he feared being arrested: A Carabinieri told me there were things I wasn't supposed to have. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In addition to the police raids in Pragelato and San Sicario, the International Olympic Committee gave urine tests Saturday to six Austrian cross-country skiers and four biathletes, two of whom have since left Italy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
[Carry] is such a biathlete. Just the other day, Ben and his brother [Jerry] were [fucking her] at the same time. ❋ Bo Hoo (2007)
