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the only sport that makes you sprint until your heart screams, then asks for perfect aim
means a winter sport combining cross-country skiing with rifle marksmanship, where racers ski hard between stops to shoot at distant targets
from From the Greek prefix 'bi-' (two) grafted onto 'athlon' (contest, prize) — the same 'athlon' behind 'athlete' and 'decathlon.' So the word literally means 'two contests,' a modern coinage built from old Greek bones, naming the marriage of skiing and shooting that grew out of Scandinavian military ski patrols.
- origin
- Born from Scandinavian military ski patrols
- penalty
- Each miss adds a 150-meter loop
- heart rate
- Athletes shoot between heartbeats, near 200 bpm
- targets
- 50 meters away, smaller than a coin
- olympic since
- Official medal sport from 1960
for instance
anterselva world championships — annual biathlon world championships held in italy since 1997, major event