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 breakt…

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…

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 …

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 Wrigh…

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…

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 d…

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 wi…

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 he…

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 …

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 inc…

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 t…

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…

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 G…

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 …

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. El…

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 wo…

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…

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 me…

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 wh…

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 …

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 …

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 thi…

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 predict…

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 …

In the conclusion to our fantastic talk with rising Swiss biathlon start Niklas Hartweg we hit a number of really great topics including - Listening to your body for training and competition - The new generation of Swiss biathletes and coaches changing the team - What it's like racing in Switzerland - The best snacks - Hartweg's plans for a Swiss k…

As the 2023-2024 season rapidly approaches we continued our efforts to interview some of the top new names in biathlon, this time with Niklas Hartweg. This episode starts right in the middle of a discussion between Nik and RJ about Hartweg's artistic side. It was going on before we started recording and because it was so interesting I just hit reco…

There is only one way to describe Hanna Kebinger: Persistence. Join us for this fabulous conversation as we see how persistence truly has paid off for Hanna time and time again. We all cheered along with her as she made her triumphant breakthrough last spring but after this, you'll be even more of a fan. This was truly a delight!…

Part 3 is the conclusion to our massive interview with Clare Egan. Here we get into the fun stuff like: - Why does Clare love pigs? - Did she wear a knit wool bra in Beijing? - Her personal Tour de France travels!Από τον penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

Part 2 of our awesome discussion with Clare Egan! In this section we get DEEEEEP into some big topics including: 1) Doping (5:35) 2) Relations with Russian and Belarussian federations/athletes (19:20) 3) Climate change (31:00) 4) Training for the big shot (57:00) Part 3 coming later this week!Από τον penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

Baiba Bendika returns to tell us all about how her life has changed over the last 9 months or so!Από τον penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

We did it! Clare Egan, the most requested and recommended interview joined us for a HUGE 3 part interview. In part 1 we focus mostly on Clare's personal history. We talk about growing up in cross country skiing, creating the XC ski club at her university, and her auspicious intro into biathlon. Then we discuss her IBU career including some truly in…

After Matthias went back to Germany in April to work with youth biathletes in Bayerwald (Bavarian forrest) we caught up with him. Unfortunately Jordan had to deal with a dog getting hit (the dog's recovering from a broken shoulder) so he was unable to make it. Part 1 of this interview is largely about the comparison of the Canadian and German "biat…

We caught up with former biathlete from the Canadian national team AND our first ever summer guest on the podcast, Scott Gow. We hear from him what keeps him busy these days, how he transitions from athlete to a "normal person". We get interrupted by another surprise former biathlete, we talk IBU and biathlon developments and there's more that you …

Come celebrate Canada Day with us as we are joined for a delightful interview with Canadian star Emma Lunder! We hear all about her journey from small town Canada to the World Cup. Then we focus in on her amazing 22-23 breakout season and the secret that made it all possible. We also get to hear more about being in a relationship with a fellow Worl…

The Return of the Penalty Loop Podcast! We're back and go over the news, both personal and biathlon, as a lot has happened since we last recorded. We hope you enjoy hearing us again as much as it was to record again!Από τον penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

As we are still awaiting a Floridian family member increase, Jordan and I had a quick chat about things happening in the biathlon world, what we are working on, and what's coming in the summer.Από τον penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com

In this week's episode we start off by talking a little biathlon news. Not a lot this week but we give a big THANK YOU to Biathlon23 for all of he work he has done the last 10 years and we wish him a restful year away from blogging. We also give some quick takes on the Norwegian 2023-2024 team announcement from this week. Then after teasing it for …

Read all about it! The new Penalty Loop Podcast Daily Paper! We take a bit of a different spin on the 2022/23 season review but with some expected topics as well of course! Globe winners, the season in numbers, missing athletes, clean shooters, streak shooters, improving nations, up & coming athletes, lots of data, lots of fun! https://public.table…

In sadly our last weekend recap of the season we take a look back at an enormously eventful weekend of racing in Oslo! We discuss the enthusiastic retirement ceremonies, the wild finish to the Men's u25 Globe race, the successful last weekends of Herrmann-Wick, Roeiseland, and Chevalier-Bouchet, Hanna Oeberg closing strong, the great success of our…

We got together immediately after the racing finished up in beautiful Oestersund to discuss another thrilling weekend of racing. Dorothea Wierer completed her best weekend in several season while the races on the men's side were wide open! We touch on the amazing young talent rising in the sport from Italy, France, Switzerland and more while the el…

RJ's home range at the Canmore Nordic Centre hosted the final two IBU Cups of the season, and the Penalty Loop crew was there three days for track-side sounds, interviews, chats, pictures, videos, and sadly some mixed feelings about only being there for 50%. Luckily we had a good time catching up afterward, and fingers crossed both our families wil…

Another amazing week of biathlon and another week of amazing crowds! We take a look back at everything that happened in an eventful week of IBU World Cup biathlon including: Latvia and Baiba Bendika on the podium! COVID impacts, Jacquelin stepping away, JT Boe's record season, Tarjei Boe looking like Tarjei Boe, Roeiseland back and Tandrevold looki…

With a week off between the World Championships and the 3rd Trimester we were so fortunate to get to spend some time chatting with Austrian up and coming biathlete Anna Gandler! We talked about the differences between Austria and Australia, growing up the daughter of an Olympic medalist, her rapid ascent to the World Cup, her Oberhof experience, go…

Another week of exciting biathlon in the Thuringer Wald with sun, rain, fog, wind, unexpected winners, expected winners, revivals, redemption, disappointments, elation, hares, amazing crowds, superstars and soon to be's, and everything that makes biathlon the best sport in the world! Jordan and RJ catch up again after the second week of the World C…

The first few races of the 2023 Oberhof World Championships are in the books and we are here to take a look back! We discuss Denise Herrmann-Wick's magical win and the German racing in general, JT Boe's absolute dominance, Samuelsson and Sweden's up's and down's this Championships, IBU quota rules and many more men and women who have been having gr…

Jordan and RJ chat about the Podcast's one-year anniversary, general biathlon news, and analytics. Then we share some thoughts about the upcoming World Championships in Oberhof!Από τον Penalty Loop

No World Cup biathlon race weekend to talk about, but that gave us the opportunity to have a great new guest on our show: Johanna Talihaerm from Estonia, reporting from Lenzerheide in Switzerland. We talked about her path into biathlon, life as an athlete (individual and team), dry-firing with only a stock, Bozeman (and Altius, see link below), spo…

We start this week off as many people are this week, diving deeeeep into the greatness of JT Boe this year and his career comparing him with Fourcade and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. Then we discuss the action in Antholz including Wierer's emotional win, Elvira's continued growth, the stunning depth of the French women, and much more. We hope you enjoy i…

In episode 52 we review World Cup 5 as it took place in rainy Ruhpolding. Not a rank-by-rank race discussion, but rather things that stood out, general thoughts about the world of biathlon, data analysis and visualization, and streaks and clean shooting. We hope you enjoy it! Tweet Jordan @penaltyloop or insta @penaltylooppodcast, and RJ @biathlona…

Another great race weekend is in the books! We talk about the return of Roeiseland and QFM from last season, the Boe brothers, Elvira, the success of the Swiss team, rising young athletes, hit-and-miss with Jacquelin, and many other things from the world of biathlon. Enjoy!Από τον Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast