🇧🇾 The IOC has recommended that Belarussian athletes be allowed to return to international competition. Interested to see how the IBU handles this. Just 2 weeks ago Ole Dahlin was very publicly in attendance at the Ukrainian national championship #Biathlon www.biathlonworld.com/news/ukraine...

Guys if you aren’t already following @thekenchilds.com you are missing out. Not only do you get awesome bobsled/luge content but you get stories like this that had me collapsing in laughter at 5:45 this morning 😂

🇩🇪 26-27 German B Teams Women: Hanna Kebinger Johanna Lehnung Johanna Puff Alma Siegismund Mareike Braun Sophie Patz Men: Lucas Fratzscher Fabian Kaskel Franz Schaser Elias Seidel Simon Kaiser Roman Rees #biathlon

🇩🇪 26-27 German A Team: 8 women & 6 men make the grade Women Selina Grotian Vanessa Voigt Julia Tannheimer Marlene Fichtner Janina Hettich-Walz Anna Weidel Julia Kink Sophia Schneider Men Philipp Nawrath Philipp Horn Justus Strelow Leonhard Pfund David Zobel Danilo Riethmuller 📸Walter/IBU #Biathlon

🇨🇭 Switzerland has announced their new coaching staff: Men's Head Coach: Kein Einaste Women's Head Coach: Gion-Andrea Bundi Shooting Coach: Rico Gross and Andreas Kuppelwieser (both men and women) B Team Coach: Fabian Bieri #biathlon

Pichler most recently held this role with Bulgaria. Obviously worked out to great success at the 2026 Olympics! #biathlon

🇦🇹 Just after announcing their national team rosters Austria Biathlon announced their leadership staff Wolfgang Pichler is in charge of the training management of the team Men’s Head Coach: Felian Schubert Women’s Head Coach: Markus Fischer #biathlon www.skiaustria.at/de/news/pers...

🇳🇴 What a week 😳. Gets married and announces pregnancy all within a few days! Holy crap! Congratulations to Ragnhild Femsteinevik and her husband!! #biathlon #biathlonfamily

🇵🇱 26-27 Poland B Team: - Andrzej Nedza-Kubiniec - Tomasz Jakiela - Barbara Skrobiszeska - Kamila Cichon - Kacper Gunka - Kacper Brzoska - Wiktoria Celczynska - Monka Hojnisz-Starega #biathlon

🇵🇱 26-27 training rosters are up on the @pzbiath site! Men's A team made some big time improvements in their 1st season under Uros Velepec Men's A Team -Jan Gunka -Konrad Badacz -Grzegorz Galica -Marcin Zawol -Wojciech Skorusa -Fabian Suchodolski 📸Deubert/IBU #biathlon

🇵🇱 26-27 training rosters are up on the @pzbiath site! Daria Gembicka and Anna Nedza-Kubiniec appear to have the leg up for the 5th starter position Women's A Team -Natalia Sidorowicz -Joanna Jakiela -Kamila Zuk -Anna Maka -Anna Nedza-Kubiniec -Daria Gembicka 📸Voigt #biathlon

🇫🇷 France also has a "2030 Excellence Group" including: Women: - Lola Bugeaud - Armand Namou Candau - Matilda Dodos - Juliette Oliva - Louise Roguet Men: - Enza Bouillet - Antonin Delsol - Flavio Guy - Nans Madelenat - Judicael Perrillat-Bottonet 📸Authamayou/IBU #biathlon

🇫🇷 Buried in the announcement was, what I expected and stated as such earlier, Cyril Burdet will be back at the helm of the French women's top squad. At this point this was all but assured but just nice to see it in ink! #biathlon

🇫🇷 French men with some very intriguing young men on the B squad including 2 of the top 4 on the 25-26 IBU Cup Overall B Team: - Damien Levet - Valentin Lejuene - Leo Carlier - Camille Grataloup Manissole - Corentin Jacob - Guillaume Poirot 📸Barbieri/IBU #biathlon

🇫🇷 France Men's A Team includes all the names you would expect along with Gaetan Paturel, the 2025-2026 IBU Cup Overall Champ! A Team: - Eric Perrot - Quentin Fillon Maillet - Emilien Jacquelin - Fabien Claude - Emilien Claude - Oscar Lombardot - Gaetan Paturel 📸Voigt #biathlon

🇫🇷 French women roll deep with the B team. This is a heavily talented group led by Baptiste Desthieux B Team -Paula Botet -Sophie Chauveau -Voldiya Galmace Paulin -Amandine Mengin -Celia Henaff -Anaelle Bondoux -Themice Fontaine -Lou Anne Dupont Ballet Baz 📸Voigt #biathlon

🇫🇷 France Women's A Team with 1 mild surprise: Jeanne Richard makes the top level along with some of the top athletes in the sport! A Team: - Lou Jeanmonnot - Oceane Michelon - Julia Simon - Camille Bened - Justine Braisaz-Bouchet - Jeanne Richard 📸Voigt #biathlon

🇦🇹 Austria Women’s A roster looks pretty familiar sans 1 very big name Anna Gandler Anna Andexer Lea Rothschopf Tamara Steiner Lara Wagner Dunja Zdouc The B team includes major talent Selina Ganner with Youth Worlds 🥇 🥉 and Ilvy Giesthauer Youth Worlds 🥉 📸 Deubert #biathlon

🇦🇹 Austria announced their training groups. 2 men earn positions on the A team Patrick Jakob Dominic Unterweger But a whopping 13 in the B group! It includes literally anybody you might expect like Müllauer, Mühlbacher, Marchl, Haslinger, Mesotitsch😳 #biathlon 📸 Koksarov/IBU

Hey biathlon family! Was in the process of setting up a Discord server for group chats and whatnot. Figured I would see if people would actually want it or not before I finished it. Obviously a weird time to be doing it but it was something I’ve been thinking about #biathlon

🇺🇸 Grace Castonguay announced that she’s taking a break from retirement. She did not call it a retirement just an effort to see a little more of life. 24yo she had 3 of her best 5 IBU Cup finishes this year including 26 in the Lake Placid SI. See you down the road Grace! #biathlon

🇩🇪 Sad but not surprised to see Johannes Kühn’s retirement 4x Youth/Junior World medalist 85 IBU Cup races 188 World Cup races 2025 World Championship Men’s Relay 🥉 And I will always remember his win in Hochfilzen at age 31. What a magical moment! Have fun Johannes! #biathlon

🇸🇪 The Swedes never have trouble developing ski speed and now they have another weapon in their arsenal. Per Nilsson, personal trainer of Frida Karlsson and head coach of the German national cross-country team comes on as Development Manager for the federation this year #biathlon

🇨🇦This is a really important step. Canadian athletes of all sports, particularly biathlon, fight an uphill battle. They receive a fraction of the support that others at the top level do. As a result many step away before reaching full potential #biathlon cdn.prod.website-files.com/61ec8285229b...

🇳🇴 Seems the 2 victims of the depth of Norwegian men this season are Vebjørn Sørum & Endre Strømsheim. Seemingly in good position to be in contention on the World Cup for many years both missed most of the season and are now outside looking in even to the recruit team #biathlon

🇳🇴 Norway Women’s Training Groups Elite Maren Kirkeeide Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Karoline Knotten Marte Krakstad Johansen Juni Arnekleiv Gro Randby Recruit: Siri Skar Guro Ytterhus Ragna Fodstad Silje Berg-Knutsen Karoline Erdal Frida Dokken 📸 Deubert/IBU #biathlon

🇳🇴 Norway Men’s Training Groups Elite: Sturla Holm Lægreid Johan-Olav Botn Johannes Dale-Skjevdal Martin Uldal Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen Isak Frey Recruit: Einar Hedegart Sverre Aspenes Ole Suhrke Martin Nevland Kasper Kalkenberg Sivert Gerhardsen 📸 Yevenko/IBU #biathlon

🇳🇴 The highly anticipated Norwegian training groups have been announced! After the Einar Hedegart drama the only questions now were really about the women’s team where we see Karo Knotten back on board. Also joining is Gro Randby! 📸 Vanzetta/IBU #biathlon

🇸🇪 Sweden Development Rosters Women: Astrid Karlstedt Elsa Brandt Elsa Tanglander Greta Lindqvist Ida Eriksson Lydia Hagg Eveby Men: Jacob Larsson Marin Hoiby Melker Nordgren Oscar Andersson Victor Berglund 📸Authamayou/IBU #biathlon

🇸🇪 Sweden continued their slow roll out of their training groups this week. The Development Team, formerly known as Autoexpert was announced today. Whereas the Norwegian "Recruit" team will have athletes of varied ages, this group is primarily focused on younger athletes #biathlon

🇸🇪 Sweden has announced their training groups for the 26-27 season. All the names you would expect are there including Philip Lindkvist-Floetten, the 19yo who won 🥇🥈🥉in Individual, Sprint, and Mass 60 at last season’s Junior Worlds 📸 Deubert/IBU #biathlon

🇵🇱 Poland *finally* announced that Tobias Torgersen and Uros Velepec are signed to coach the women’s and men’s teams through the next 4 seasons. I am especially happy for Tobias who has overseen significant growth of these women but growth potential still remains! #biathlon

🇳🇴 Perhaps least surprising of all there has been another twist. Einar Hedegart has indeed joined the Norwegian B team with the agreement that his training will be overseen by Anders Øverby. This is just training groups though and he still has to earn the IBU/World Cup starts #biathlon

🇫🇷 Literally a laugh out loud when I scrolled through and saw this on Insta. Lou surveys her kingdom 😂 #biathlon

🇳🇴 Einar Hedegart was left off the “A” team (rest of the team hasn’t been released yet). Hedegart subsequently rejected a position on the “B” team. He has said that this means he will be done with biathlon and continue only with XC skiing. (Meant to post this yesterday) #biathlon

🎙️❤️ Mathieu Garcia, tout jeune retraité sportif, nous fait l'honneur de participer à notre Podcast. 50 minutes d'échanges hyper intéressants autour du biathlon. Merci Mathieu, on en redemande... ;) ➡️ ballesdepioche.podbean.com/e/balles-de-... 📸 Alexis Rodriguez

🇨🇿 Marketa Davidova announced today she has undergone a 2nd procedure on her back today. This procedure removed the initial disc that had herniated and inserted a new disc with an implant and it sounds like possibly did a vertebral fusion. She only describes it as “reinforced with screws” #biathlon

Added a new section at the bottom with Rookies who were kept out of the first draft. The first rookies added were Estere Volfa and Marlene Fichtner. I'll review and see if there are any others to add. Or if you have suggestions add them below! #biathlon

This has been updated to add discussions of 🇸🇮 Slovenia's hiring of Armin Auchentaller and Rok Trsan as well as 🇸🇪 Sweden's hiring of Jonne Kähkönen. #biathlon penaltyloop.com/2026/04/15/2...

2025-2026 Most Improved. Wondering who is the most improved skier this year? Most improved shooter? Most improved shooting speed? I tried to tackle this comparing each athlete to their prior career best to see who were the top 5 in each category #biathlon penaltyloop.com/2026/04/16/2...

Trying to do something new this offseason...a coaching carousel piece. I just put it together today and I'll keep it updated as new hires come through. So far we have completed: France Norway Germany Still need to add Sweden & Slovenia #biathlon penaltyloop.com/2026/04/15/2...

🎙️❤️ Damien Levet second au général de l'IBU CUP partage ce podcast avec nous ! Un biathlète très sympa, une discussion très intéressante... Que demander de plus ? On n'a pas vu le temps passer... Merci Damien pour ta bonne humeur et ta disponibilité ! ballesdepioche.podbean.com/e/balles-de-...

🇸🇪 With little surprise Jonne Kähkönen joins the Swedish biathlon team. He's going to be joining as the top SHOOTING coach. Johan Hagström will continue as shooting coach Of course we already knew Johannes Lukas will continue on as the team lead #biathlon

🇩🇪 Sandra Flunger has been announced as the new head coach of the German women's team. She will replace the recently departed Sverre Røiseland. Flunger is beloved by the Swiss team and has taken them to new heights lately. This is a home run hire #biathlon www.fondoitalia.it/2026/04/13/b...

🇸🇮 Armin Auchentaller officially the new coach of Slovenia. He has made a career out of converting xc skiers. Now he has his biggest potential challenge yet with Anamarija Lampic! Not to mention young talent like Repinc and Planko! Great hire! #biathlon www.nordicmag.info/biathlon-la-...

🇳🇴 Norway has finalized its coaches for the seniors biathlon teams for the next Olympic cycle Men: Anders Øverby and Patrick Oberegger Women: Sverre Røiseland and Marthe Kristoffersen #biathlon kommunikasjon.ntb.no/pressemeldin...

25-26 Career Best Seasons! A quick look at some of the athletes who achieved career years this season. From the top of the top with Jeanmonnot & Perrot, to big time surges like Lea Meier, and even a few who just barely grabbed a career best! #biathlon penaltyloop.com/2026/04/10/c...

New Penalty Loop Podcast! A slightly delayed 2025-2026 Season Recap: We did something slightly different this year going week by week and sharing surprises/memories that stick with us. I could have gone another 3 hours! Plus a look ahead at 26-27! #biathlon

New Penalty Loop Podcast! A slightly delayed 2025-2026 Season Recap: We did something slightly different this year going week by week and sharing surprises/memories that stick with us. I could have gone another 3 hours! Plus a look ahead at 26-27! #biathlon

🎙️❤️ Interview du vainqueur de l'IBU CUP : Gaëtan Paturel ! Un vrai plaisir de parler biathlon avec lui, on y apprend beaucoup, beaucoup et ... beaucoup de choses, Merci Gaëtan ! Rendez-vous l'année prochaine en coupe du monde ;) ballesdepioche.podbean.com/e/balles-de-...