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| 11.06.2010 |
| Season Review Part Two: More Titles and Troph... |
| Germany and Norway |
| After boiling down the Olympic season, two teams easily stand out from all of the rest; the German women and the Norwegian men. Magdalena Neuner and Emil Hegle Svendsen won the Overall World Cup titles and put their respective teams in such a strong position that they dominated almost every sub category. |
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| 03.06.2010 |
| Season Review: The Cream of the Crop |
| Top Athletes Equals Medals |
| The 2010 Olympic season is now etched in the history books. Although there were many surprises during the season and at the Olympic Winter Games, one fact stands out. Most of the top athletes ended the season with World Cup victories or Olympic medals and the top rankings in the Overall World Cup. The best athletes are at the top of the sport, because year-in and year-out, they “deliver the goods;” they are the cream of the crop. |
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| 27.05.2010 |
| “Perfect Ending” for Sandrine Bailly |
| Milestones in Popular French Biathlete’s Career Tied to Khanty Mansiysk |
| Sandrine Bailly ended her World Cup career with a second place finish in the Mass Start in Khanty Mansiysk, the site of her 2003 Pursuit World Championship crown, the famous tie with Martina Beck. |
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| 12.05.2010 |
| Simone Hauswald Exits with a Smile of Satisfa... |
| Dream Ending to Career |
| Simone Hauswald flashed a big smile as she held up a crystal globe and two Olympic Bronze medals during a photo shoot in Khanty Mansiysk. That image symbolized the end of the career for Hauswald who in every sense of the phrase, “went out on top.” |
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| 05.05.2010 |
| Vincent Defrasne Leaves Biathlon with No Regr... |
| Preparation as Important as Medals |
| Vincent Defrasne never planned to be an elite athlete, but grew into biathlon and rose to the sport’s highest level as an Olympic Champion. |
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| 28.04.2010 |
| Martina Beck, both Happy and Sad as She Retir... |
| Career Ends in Memorable Khanty Mansiysk |
| Martina Beck ended her biathlon career in a place that holds great memories for her, Khanty Mansiysk. It was in the same stadium where she won her only individual World Championship that she closed her career on March 27. |
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| 22.04.2010 |
| Sylvie Becaert Never Expected to Win Olympic ... |
| Big Moments in Khanty Mansiysk |
| When Sylvie Becaert started biathlon, simply making an Olympic team seemed like an impossible dream. “I started biathlon in 1998 as part of a strong team that included Corinne Niogret and Ann Briand. I thought that I would never never make the Olympic Games. Then in 2001, I was told that maybe I could make the team for Salt Lake. I said that if I made the Olympic Games, I would finish then, but I am now finally leaving. I never expected to win any Olympic medals.” |
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| 21.04.2010 |
| Magdalena Neuner Named Biathlete of the Year |
| Magdalena Neuner, winner of the Overall World Cup title and two-time Olympic champion, has been selected Biathlete of the Year by Forum Nordicum, an international group of journalists who cover Nordic sports. |
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| 19.04.2010 |
| Renovations and Construction Underway at Ruhp... |
| Environment and Technical Improvements |
| For the next three years leading up to the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Olympic Games, the IBU World Championships will again be the centerpiece of the biathlon season. All three of them will be conducted in renovated or newly built stadiums. |
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| 16.04.2010 |
| Hanevold’s Retirement Goes According to th... |
| Three-year Plan Ends with Olympic Gold and Podium in Final World Cup Appearance |
| Halvard Hanevold decided to retire from biathlon long before his final season ever started. With that decision, he put together a long term plan so that he might escape the fate of those who decide to leave the sport late in the game “I just did not want to fade out, with a little note in the papers in the middle of April.” |
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