Galen Rupp hopes NYC Half begins build back up to marathon
Galen Rupp enters Sunday’s NYC Half, his first race in four months, coming off what he called “a pretty rough” 2022.
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Boe back to complete perfect sprint season
Johannes Thingnes Boe showed no ill-effects from his week off as he notched yet another World Cup success with victory in the sprint in Oslo. In the final week of the season, Boe bounced back from missing last week in Oestersund with Covid to cruise to the win despite a miss on the standing shoot.
Tiril Eckhoff: Norwegian biathlon icon set to retire - 'I feel incredibly lucky to have lived the dream'
Norwegian biathlon star Tiril Eckhoff has announced her retirement from the sport. Eckhoff posted a statement on social media that said she was proud of what she achieved in the sport but feels it’s the right decision to step aside. Ad The 32-year-old is a two-time Olympic champion having secured gold as part of Norway’s mixed relay team at Sochi 2014 before repeating the feat at the most recent Games at Beijing 2022.
Biathlon-Norwegian Olympic champion Eckhoff retires
Norway's Tiril Eckhoff, a double Olympic biathlon mixed relay champion and three-times individual world champion, has announced her retirement, the Norwegian Ski Federation said on Wednesday.
'It’s the right time!' – Marte Olsbu Roeiseland to retire from biathlon at end of the season
Legendary Norwegian biathlete Marte Olsbu Roeiseland has confirmed that she will step away from biathlon at the end of the season, saying that now is the “right time” to retire. In 2022 at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Roeiseland, 32, created history by winning five Olympic medals (three golds and two bronzes), becoming the first woman to ever achieve the feat and matching the tally for the most medals won in a single Winter Olympic Games ever. Ad She also created another piece of history in the 2020 world championships when she became the first athlete to ever win medals across all seven events.
Wierer wraps up dream weekend in Sweden
Dorothea Wierer made it two wins from two events in Oestersund in the mass start as Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen earned his first biathlon World Cup win of the season. The Italian took advantage of a miss from Julia Simon on her final shot to take victory in the women's 12.5km mass start, adding to the individual win she took on Thursday.
Norway at the double in relays in Ostersund
Norway made it five wins from a possible five biathlon World Cup events in the men's relay in Ostersund as France snatched the women's relay crystal globe. Even without their big three of Johannes Thingnes Boe, Tarjei Boe and Sturla Holm Laegreid, the Norwegian men made it a clean sweep on the World Cup circuit in convincing fashion.
Arendz, Cameron claim Crystal Globes at World Cup finals as Canada closes dream season with 3-medal day
Mark Arendz and Collin Cameron led a three-medal day in World Cup action for Canada's Para Nordic team to conclude the season on Wednesday at the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center in Midway, Utah.