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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Jack

Biathlon

Today we went to see an Olympic biathlon competition. The Winter Games biathlon is a race where a skier will ski a race course and then shoot a rifle at targets five times, and then will repeat the same thing four more times.

Photo: Man skiingThe judges add one minute for every time the skiers miss their target. So if  someone crosses the finish line first but missed a lot of their snipes (targets), they probably won't win. Biathlon was invented by the Norwegians. Norway took the top two spots in the men's 20 km race today.


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