The Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast

It's time to catch up on all of the biathlon news from May 2024 including: - Dorothea Wierer continues through 2026 Olympics - Stina Nilsson back to XC skiing - Discussion of Rico Gross going to the Bulgarian team (this was recorded just hours before it was announced that he's not going to the Bulgarian team) - Czech team coaching changes - Early reactions to team announcements from a few nations...

It's time to talk more biathlon! Let be honest it's always time to talk more biathlon. We reconvened to discuss: - French, Swiss, Swedish, and Norwegian national championships - A little bit of biathlon news - Was there a connection between ski brand and ski speed this season - Jordan's connection with Tarjei Boe - A preview/overview of some breakthroughs this season 

It's time to recap the 2023-2024 Biathlon World Cup season! Here in part 2 we discuss the women including: - Lou Jeanmonnot announcing herself as a contender now and in the future - Lisa Vittozzi finishing off one of the most remarkable career comebacks in biathlon history - Lena Haecki-Gross in year 10 of her career becomes the best Swiss woman in biathlon history - Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold jus...

It's our 100th Episode! We recap our journey of where we started and everything that has happened over the last 100 episodes. A big THANK YOU! To everybody who has listened and joined us along the way! We also cover 2 pieces of big news: 1) Christian Gow, Biathlon Canada mainstay, announced his retirement 2) Tarjei Boe is back! Please check out my very personal thoughts on this here: https://penal...

It's time to recap the 2023-2024 Biathlon World Cup season! We broke our recap up in 2 parts rather than giving you one massive nearly 3 hour podcast. Here in part 1 we discuss the men including: - JT Boe's 5th Overall title was better than you may have thought - Some young men showing off including Eric Perrot, Tommaso Giacomel, and Campbell Wright - Tarjei Boe completes the 2nd best season of hi...

We head back to Canmore for one more episode! This time around we do our normal discussion about the racing but this time we have interviews! We discuss: - Exhausted athletes - JT Boe winning the Globe in style - Anna Gandler continues to shine - The French and Italians close out the season very strong - Lisa Vittozzi and Lou Jeanmonnot giving us a preview of next season? - Late season redemption...

In part 1 of our recap of the conclusion of the World Cup biathlon season in Canmore we have story time with RJ! He shares the tales of his weekend mixing and mingling with fans, athletes and coaches and gives us the sense of what it was like on the ground as the greatest biathletes in the world converged on Canada. In this episode we hear: - His day by day and race by race memories - Hear about s...

Biathlon returns to North America and the racing was absolutely electric. It absolutely left us breathless so we had to wait and record a little later so we can recover! This week we discussed: - The epic Men's Pursuit race including JT Boe and the Emilien Jacquelin experience - The Lou Jeanmonnot weekend and what would have to happen for her to win the Overall - US Biathlon on an upswing - Justin...

It was a rainy and fairly gross weekend in Oslo, but it was another thrilling weekend of racing! This week on the pod we discussed all of the action including: - The really exciting state of the Overall races with it being completely undecided with 2 weekends to go - Did Tandrevold fix her shooting and is she now the prohibitive favorite? If not her who is the top challenger? - Will Tarjei Boe top...

Anna Gandler was so kind to grace us with her time this week! We covered many fun topics with the up and coming Austrian biathlete including: - Her spectacular 2024 World Championships in Nove Mesto by every aspect of racing. - Getting a new rifle this season and learning to adapt to it. - A delicious discussion on German/Austrian snacks - Running a successful social media account as an athlete -...

After a thrilling conclusion to the 2023-2024 Biathlon World Championships in Nove Mesto our heads were absolutely spinning. As we covered the first half of the events on part 1, after covering some big picture take aways we tried to focus on the races and stories from the 2nd half starting with the Individual races. Some of the items discussed included: - JT Boe is still the boss - Julia Simon's...

The Nove Mesto World Championships are here and we couldn't be more excited. There were already so many stories and things to discussed so this is an absolutely jam packed episode including: - Waxing once again taking center stage - Julia Simon is absolutely unbeatable right now - Sturla Holm Laegreid's emotional gold medal - JT Boe's comeback in the Pursuit - Baiba Bendika!!!!! - Franziska Preuss...

Come take a lap with us on our most unusual (and hopefully fun!) episode to date.  - We start out by discussing the actual racing that occurred this week on the IBU Cup and Junior Cup including Johan-Olav Botn, Simon Kaiser, and the dominant Austrians on the Juniors level. - We discuss the sad news of the Trevor Kiers retirement - We do some preview work on the impending World Championships in Nov...

During what was supposed to be a bit of a quiet time in biathlon there was simply too much news! We dusted off the mics and got together to discuss the really important news of the week including: - The heartbreaking and infuriating story of Joanne Reid's sexual abuse and harassment by a member of the US Biathlon wax tech team - The Youth Olympic Games and some great Canadian performances - A new...

Shortly following the completion of the racing in Antholz we got together to chat about all of the action from the week including: - Lena Haecki-Gross getting her first win! - Julia Simon is coming on really strong - But don't lose sight of Lou Jeanmonnot! - Johannes Dale-Skjevdal's insane last lap in the Mass Start - A bit of  Norwegian men's team discussion including JT Boe looking more like JT...

After one of the thrilling complete weekends of biathlon racing in the last several years we of course put together our longest podcast of the season. There was just so much to talk about! Breaking from what has become our normal back and forth we decided to go race by race to make sure we didn't miss any of the big moments incuding: - Simon vs. Elvira in the Women's Relay - The chaotic 3rd leg of...

It's 2024 and Biathlon is back! We reconvene to discuss all the action from Oberhof including: - The new Eurovision site - Weather and climate affecting biathlon - Even more success for the Norwegian men including Stroemsheim's victorious weekend and Laegreid is back - Doll gets another win! - The resplendent and dominant French women - The wild women's Pursuit race - The toils of Hanna Oeberg - A...

Recorded the night before racing started in Lenzerheide, Polish Women's Head Coach Tobias Torgersen very generously granted us far more time than we had any right to expect or a fantastic interview. In this discussion we touched on: - Coach Torgersen's personal history including growing up a fan of cross country and biathlon racing - We discuss his coaching career as he quickly moved up the ranks...

Merry Christmas! We got together just before the holiday weekend to share our thoughts on the first trimester and all of the action from Oestersund, Hochfilzen, and Lenzerheide! We discussed many many things including: - Did wax affect the racing so far this season? - Our favorite moments of the season (so far!) - Our thoughts on some of the top men/women of the season - Athletes who look to have...

The World Cup makes the first ever visit to Lenzerheide and we are here to break it all down! In this episode we discuss - The amazing Justine Braisaz-Bouchet weekend - JT Boe is back on top - Emilien Jacquelin is Emilien Jacquelin - Norwegian men had some adventures with the rifle and RJ gives a breakdown of the rules issues at play and exactly what happened - We finish up with some rapid fire th...

Another week of exciting racing down and another new podcast to recap it! We touch on a number or big things that happened in Hochfilzen including: - COVID is causing havoc - Lena Haecki-Gross' HUGE weekend - Tarjei Boe in yellow?!? - Is JT Boe all the way back? - Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold's growing into the Norwegian leader - Elvira Oeberg looks ready to contend again - Knotten, Gandler, Perrot,...

The first full week of biathlon is in the books so we reconvene to discuss the latest action! If you missed part 1 which came out late last week it covers the mixed relays, the individuals, and the women's relay.  In this show we talk about: - The freezing weather, wax, the skis and how it all affected the racing - The Sturla Holm Laegreid question and the dilemma facing the Norwegian men - Sebbe...

Jordan and RJ get together for a phrenetic recap of the first five events of the IBU World Cup season. This episode was recorded just after the Women's Relay in Oestersund but before the Men's Relay, so we discuss everything from season opening Single Mixed Relay through the Women's Relay on Wednesday. Fair warning, we were REALLY excited about this so we jump from topic to topic very quickly. Jus...

Danish athlete, coach, and Danish TV2 national biathlon commentator Kristian Wulff joins to help us prepare for the upcoming season! We get right into the #1 issue of the upcoming season, waxing and how it will dramatically affect the racing. We also touch on a few of Kristian's other stories to watch, some under the radar athletes, and his predicted top 3.  Jordan and RJ then close out our season...

The biathlon season is finally here! This is part 1 of our 2 part season preview. We start out with a look back at some of the big stories of last year including JT Boe and QFM as well as the new generation of biathlon on the men's side and Julia Simon, Wierer and Vittozzi coming on strong, and Elvira Oeberg looking not quite like herself. Then we try to think of some major questions/storylines fo...