“Now all the US needs is for one of our biathlon athletes to get a medal.”
You’d think there’d be some Americans that can shoot in the winter...
The biathlon competition is about skiing as much as shooting. The nations that do the best have the longest winters to allow for the most training in really intense cross-country skiing.
Look at who just cleaned up: Norway and Sweden. The Norwegians invented the sport.
What is really sad is that in a nation with as strong a base of gun owners, the US shooting teams have to use Anschuetz rifles, because there is no one making a competitive .22 rifle in the US.
“You’d think there’d be some Americans that can shoot in the winter...”
Oh, there a great many of us who can shoot in the winter (and the spring, and the summer, and the fall), but most of us don’t get terribly excited about having to ski till our hearts and lungs explode in order to do it. We do it the right way: Identify a target, shoot it, and go back in the house for a beer.