FORT KENT – Monday was a good news/bad news day for members of the Fort Kent World Cup Organizing Committee and Maine Winter Sports Center. Fort Kent will not host a 2008-09 World Cup biathlon event in 2009 as originally scheduled, but after a meeting… Read More
Officials at the Maine Winter Sports Center in Fort Kent were shocked Monday to find out the International Biathlon Union may pull the plug on the 2009 World Cup biathlon event scheduled to be held at their facility. The U.S. Biathlon Association announced that the… Read More
WHISTLER, British Columbia – The U.S. biathlon team wrapped up its season this weekend with wins Sunday in the open and junior 3-by-6 kilometer mixed relays and solid finishes in the sprints Saturday at the Canadian National Championships. Yarmouth native Walt Shepard was on the… Read More
FORT KENT – Among the plaques and honors hanging in a trophy case inside the 10th Mountain Center is a certificate critical to both 10th Mountain and the Maine Winter Sports Center. That certificate states the ski center is licensed by the International Biathlon Union… Read More
WHISTLER, British Columbia – Several Maine biathlon athletes got a first look at the course for the 2010 Olympics Thursday while competing in the Canadian National Championships at the Whistler Olympic Park. Walt Shepard of Yarmouth finished sixth in the 20-kilometer men’s individual race, coming… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Yarmouth’s Walt Shepard won his third national title at the North American/U.S. National Biathlon Championships with a first-place finish Saturday in the senior men’s 15-kilometer mass start. Laura Spector, who competes for the Caribou-based Maine Winter Sports Center, also won her third… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Maine natives Russell Currier and Walt Shepard continued their strong showings with national titles in the pursuit format competitions in the North American/U.S. National Biathlon Championships Friday at the Mount Itasca Biathlon Facility. Fort Fairfield’s Hilary McNamee also had a strong day… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Russell Currier won the junior men’s biathlon sprint Thursday morning in the 2008 North American/U.S. National Championships at the Mount Itasca Biathlon facility. Currier, a Stockholm native and 2006 Caribou High School graduate, had three penalties in the 10-kilometer race but still… Read More
CARIBOU – The Maine State Biathlon Championships scheduled for this weekend in Fort Kent have been cancelled because of a forecast for bad traveling weather. Maine Winter Sports Center biathlon coach Gary Colliander said in a release the MWSC consulted with 10th Mountain Ski Club,… Read More
FORT KENT – The Maine State Biathlon Championships will be held Saturday and Sunday at the 10th Mountain Ski Center. Mass start competitions will take place Saturday night and a pursuit is scheduled for Sunday morning. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
OSTERSUND, Sweden – Russell Currier of Stockholm competed in his first 20-kilometer event Thursday, finishing 79th with six penalties in the Biathlon World Championships. Currier finished 10 minutes, 17.3 seconds behind winner Emile Hegle Svendsen of Norway. Svendsen had only one penalty as he defeated… Read More
OSTERSUND, Sweden – Russell Currier and the U.S. finished 16th out of 19 biathlon teams in the mixed relay Tuesday at the senior world championships. Currier, a Stockholm native who graduated from Caribou High School in 2006 and is a five-time member of the U.S. Read More
Russell Currier has been on the biathlon world championship stage before. For the last five years, the Stockholm native has been a member of the U.S. team at the youth/junior worlds. The stakes will get a lot higher for Currier today, however, when he competes… Read More
RUHPOLDING, Germany – A U.S. youth women’s relay team including Grace Boutot of Fort Kent and Hilary McNamee of Fort Fairfield had a clean shooting day and wound up 14th, while Madawaska’s Meagan Toussaint was on the 10th-place junior women’s team Saturday as competition in the Youth/Junior Biathlon… Read More
The season just keeps getting better for biathlete Russell Currier and the Maine Winter Sports Center. The 20-year-old Stockholm native, who has posted some of his best-ever international results this week, was named to the U.S. team for the biathlon world championships later this month,… Read More
RUHPOLDING, Germany – Fort Fairfield native Hilary McNamee finished 46th overall in the youth women’s 10-kilometer individual race Wednesday morning at the Youth-Junior World Biathlon Championships. McNamee shot clean in the first stage of prone shooting but had three penalties in the first standing stage… Read More
RUHPOLDING, Germany – Russell Currier of Stockholm finished 15th overall in the junior men’s 15-kilometer individual race Tuesday at the Youth/Junior Biathlon World Championships. Currier, who skis for the Maine Winter Sports Center team, was 3 minutes, 31 seconds behind Jean Guillaume Beatrix of France… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Four Maine biathletes have received nominations to compete for the U.S. Biathlon Team at the Youth and Junior Biathlon World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany, from Jan. 26 to Feb. 2. Hilary McNamee of Fort Fairfield, Meagan Toussaint of Madawaska, Grace Boutot of… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Madawaska native Meagan Toussaint and Fort Fairfield’s Hilary McNamee each won a sprint race Friday as the biathlon Youth and Junior World Championship trials opened at Mt. Itasca. Toussaint and McNamee, who ski for the Caribou-based Maine Winter Sports Center team are… Read More
NEW GLOUCESTER – Space is still available for the U.S. Biathlon Association annual golf tournament, which will feature an appearance by Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr. The tournament is being held Monday at Falmouth Country Club. Tee time is 11 a.m. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
When officials at the Nordic Heritage Sport Club in Presque Isle and Maine Winter Sports Center learned they’d won a bid to host the 2009 Junior Olympic Cross Country Skiing Championships, a sort of dream started to take shape. Junior Olympics would have overlapped a… Read More
FORT KENT – To anyone who is only an occasional visitor to the 10th Mountain Ski Center for a biathlon or cross-country skiing event, the sight of the facility during the warm weather months is a bit jarring. The berms near the spectator stands are… Read More
FORT KENT – Molly Susla had never been in a summer biathlon event before this weekend’s U.S. and North American summer biathlon championships. Douglas Hoover is in his 15th year of summer biathlon and had qualified for four straight world championship teams before this weekend. Read More
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FORT KENT – An apparent technical glitch kept officials from announcing race results or finish times following day one of the North American Summer Biathlon Championships Thursday night. “It’s a computer issue and I’m not going to elaborate beyond that,” Jeff Dubis, chief of competition… Read More
The Maine Winter Sports Center facilities in Fort Kent and Presque Isle have hosted several elite biathlon competitions over the years, but the latest event is new for the MWSC and the 10th Mountain Ski Center in Fort Kent. The 10th Mountain center will host… Read More
FORT KENT – For once, it wasn’t just the moose northern Maine drivers had to worry about Friday morning. At least, not along a mile stretch of the Ouellette Road in St. Agatha where commuters found themselves in the middle of a summer cross country roller-ski race. Read More
FORT KENT – Lanny Barnes was feeling at home on the 10th Mountain Ski Center range Sunday. Still, the 2006 Olympian knew she had to back off a bit before firing her final shot in the 10-kilometer senior women’s pursuit race at the North American and U.S. biathlon… Read More
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FORT KENT – The organizers of the 2004 biathlon World Cup stop at the 10th Mountain Ski Center learned a lot in the wake of planning for a major international event, from how to structure their committees to what kind of materials to spread on icy patches in… Read More
FORT KENT – Two-hundreds pounds of man and machine do not make for an efficient combination when it comes to skiing on the heavy, wet snow at the 10th Mountain Ski Center. Considering the combined weight of his rifle and himself, Newt Rogers knew exactly… Read More
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FORT KENT – When Walt Shepard packed up his biathlon rifle for the final time last winter, he wasn’t sure when – or even if – he’d unpack it again. So it’s a good thing Shepard left the rifle and the rest of his equipment… Read More
LAKE PLACID – Fort Fairfield’s Hilary McNamee recorded two biathlon victories in the youth division over the weekend at Nor-Am Cup Series races. McNamee finished first in Saturday’s sprint race and followed up with a victory in the pursuit race on Sunday in the ages… Read More
MARTELL, Italy – Stockholm’s Russell Currier and Fort Kent native Newt Rogers helped the U.S. junior men’s biathlon team to a 16th-place finish in the 4×7.5-kilometer relay Wednesday at the junior world championships. The team, which also included UMaine-Presque Isle student Brandan Ostroot, was 12… Read More
MARTELL, Italy – The U.S. biathlon world junior championship team got off to a shaky start as competition started Wednesday with the men’s individual races. In the junior men’s 15-kilometer race, Fort Kent native Newt Rogers placed 77th with six penalties. He was 15 minutes,… Read More
Aroostook County will be well represented at this week’s biathlon World Junior Championships in Martell, Italy. Between high school and college students, former world juniors competitors and members of the Maine Winter Sports Center team, five biathlon athletes out of 16 on the world juniors… Read More
CESANA SAN SICARIO, Italy – Russell Currier of Stockholm finished a personal-best third place Sunday in the junior men’s 10-kilometer sprint at a Europa Cup biathlon competition. Currier, a 2006 Caribou High graduate who competes for the Maine Winter Sports Center, finished 28.6 seconds behind… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Five Aroostook County residents who are members of the Maine Winter Sports Center biathlon team have qualified for the 2007 Junior World Championships in Martell, Italy, this month. The MWSC group qualified for the world championships at the team trials at Mount… Read More
COLERAINE, Minn. – Three Aroostook County natives who compete for the Maine Winter Sports Center picked up top-three finishes in sprint competition at the U.S. Biathlon Junior World Championship trials Friday at the Mount Itasca center. Stockholm’s Russell Currier placed second in the junior men’s… Read More
Three Aroostook County natives who are former members of the U.S. junior national biathlon team, along with six other athletes from northern Maine, will start competition Friday for a chance to return to the team that will compete in the world junior championships. Newt Rogers… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The Nordic Heritage Ski Club is pulling off another first in the biathlon world this weekend as it hosts the 13th International Biathlon Union Organizers’ Meeting. About 40 biathlon officials from overseas were beginning to arrive Wednesday in Presque Isle for the… Read More
VALCARTIER, Quebec – Stockholm native Russell Currier won two national biathlon championships while several other Maine Winter Sports Center athletes and Aroostook County natives also earned national titles in last weekend’s North American Championships at the Myriam Bedard Biathlon Center. The U.S. national championships were… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – They hosted approximately 250 athletes from 30 countries, rallied hundreds of volunteers to help pull off the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships and helped pump millions of dollars into the local economy. And that was just since January. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
FORT KENT – The 10th Mountain Division Lodge venue of the Maine Winter Sports Center was just too close to not take the time to visit it while in northern Maine. Two Austrian biathlon coaches who ventured to Fort Kent on Saturday were as impressed… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – For as long as Ray Kokkonen can remember, they’ve done it. And for as long as they’ve done it, they’ve kept it hush-hush. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – After participating in the shotgun start of Friday morning’s biathlon relay race, two state commissioners got down to the details of the tourism and economic development effects of the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships. Patrick McGowan, the state conservation commissioner, and Jack… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Over the course of the six-day, 16-event 2006 Biathlon Junior Championships, 14 different countries won a medal in the four different types of races. But on the final day at the Nordic Heritage Ski Center on Friday, the most powerful biathlon nations… Read More
MADAWASKA – Residents from Madawaska to Mars Hill have been welcoming athletes, coaches and parents from all over the world into their homes during the last 10 days while the Youth and Junior International Biathlon Union World Championships are being held in Presque Isle. People… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – About a dozen students from Fort Fairfield High School are getting a first-class education this week in how to run an international biathlon event as they serve as Level 1 officials for the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships. The students, most of… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The French junior biathlon team was ecstatic Thursday morning when three of their young women were in the limelight receiving bronze medals for their third-place finish in the youth women relay. Marine Dusser, Marine Bolliet and Laure Soulie, all under 19 years… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – With the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships winding down to the very last day of races, a local official said Thursday that organizers will “go out with a bang” when they host the closing gala event tonight. The Mardi Gras-themed social at… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – When Owen Wells visited the Nordic Heritage Center during the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships on Thursday, he kept using the words “overwhelming” and “breathtaking.” Wells, the president and chief executive officer of the Libra Foundation, was in Presque Isle on Thursday… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Iris Waldhuber and Anna Hufnagl waited with anticipation at the finish line as the 3×6-kilometer youth women’s relay drew to a close Thursday morning at the Nordic Heritage Ski Center. “Wo ist sie?” the Austrians asked each other in German. “Where is… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Stripped to the waist in near 20-degree weather Wednesday morning, 10 Caribou High School cross-country skiers were showing their support for one of their own competing in the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships. Each of the youths had a letter or a… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – A group of Limestone teens joked Wednesday that if they’d known about the cold, they would have thought twice about taking part in a “day off” from school to attend the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships. The six high school students spent… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – From accounting to anti-doping, staff and students with Northern Maine Community College were busy this week volunteering at the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships. About 100 students, staff and faculty were either helping at the Nordic Heritage Center in Presque Isle, which… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – When an athlete slid on a race trail and skidded into a tree during Sunday competitions, Kim McCrea was there “just in case.” McCrea, one of the many medical staff volunteers watching out for athletes on the race trail during the 2006… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – All he wanted was a top-15 finish at some point this year. For a while, it looked like Mark Johnson might get on to the podium in Wednesday’s youth men’s 12.5-kilometer individual competition. So while ninth didn’t mean a medal for Johnson,… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Organizing officials are halfway through the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships and, while there have been a few glitches along the way, they are singing the praises of hundreds of volunteers for a successful event so far. “We couldn’t do it without… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – During the first biathlon competition Tuesday morning at the Nordic Heritage Center, no one had more fans in the stands than U.S. youth biathlete Hilary McNamee. The Fort Fairfield native’s parents were cheering her on from the spectator bleachers, as was her… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Marion Blondeau has already stood on the podium with a top-3 finish in the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships twice this week. On Tuesday, Blondeau reached the top step. Blondeau’s speedy skiing, on a day where wind and snow made things erratic… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Spectators at the Biathlon Junior World Championships are destined to see a wealth of sights when they climb atop the bleachers to watch the races this week – athletes and coaches with skis and ski poles, fans with big, bright signs and cowbells, camera operators… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – As part of the apres-ski activities for spectators ready to do something a little different this week during the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships, local organizers are hosting the Warren Miller Film Festival. Throughout the week, they’re showcasing four extreme skiing and… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Standing outside the lodge at the Nordic Heritage Center on Sunday, Lance Sweeney didn’t have a pair of skis or a rifle, or a placard with a number around his waist. Although he wasn’t a biathlete, Sweeney and hundreds of others played… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Biathlon combines cross-country skiing with target shooting. So you’d think bullets would be an important thing to remember when preparing for a race, such as the junior women’s 10-kilometer pursuit event of the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships held Sunday at the Nordic Heritage Ski… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Arild Askestad of Norway became the first double gold medalist, Germany’s Magdalena Neuner showed why she’s ready for elite biathlon now, and one event was marked by a technical miscue as four pursuit races were contested Sunday in the Biathlon Junior World Championships at the… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Tina and Lyndsay White could pinpoint instantly the most coveted souvenirs Saturday at the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships. “It is definitely the cowbells,” they said nearly in unison as they worked together inside a trailer crammed with merchandise being sold by… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Eileen and Dan Hughes are not biathletes, nor have they ever been to a biathlon competition. Dan Hughes acknowledged Saturday that he has watched just a few competitions on TV. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – There were no top-three finishes for the U.S. team Saturday in the sprint events of the Biathlon Junior World Championships. What there was, in addition to warm temperatures and a steady crosswind, was a strong showing for the youth women in the… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Just a day before the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships were expected to get under way, local volunteers were out in full force working out the bugs and completing last-minute preparations for the international event. Volunteers from as far away as Connecticut,… Read More
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PRESQUE ISLE – When it comes to going the extra mile, Presque Isle volunteers for the Biathlon Junior World Championships like to think they have perfected the method. Thanks to a saw, a wax technician and an event manager with a knack for precision cutting,… Read More
Perhaps no Aroostook County resident was more excited that the World Junior Biathlon Championships were to be held in Presque Isle this year than Newt Rogers. Rogers, an 18-year-old from Fort Kent and one of the country’s top junior biathletes, made the team for the… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – It was just four days until the big night and Michelle Michaud was behind schedule. Twenty minutes after a rehearsal was supposed to start for the opening ceremonies of the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships, Michaud dashed into the gymnasium area at… Read More
FORT FAIRFIELD – Youth biathlon hopefuls Hilary McNamee and Misha Lennert spend a lot of time together. They go to the same school, they train together, and they live in the same house. But when the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships begin this weekend, they… Read More
FORT KENT – The first person Rachel Steer saw at the finish line Tuesday during the U.S. Olympic biathlon trials, other than the officials, was Toby Schwoerer. The engaged couple em-braced, and Steer let a few tears slip. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
FORT KENT – Winters in upstate New York, summers at the 10th Mountain Ski Center. Tim Burke, Jeremy Teela and Lowell Bailey have forged their unique bond over the last decade or so through training, racing together, and competing against each other. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
FORT KENT – Ralph Ostlund, among 50 or so spectators at the 10th Mountain Division Lodge Tuesday, cheered and applauded every biathlon athlete who entered the shooting stadium or crossed the finish line. A knitted hat kept his head warm, but his face was red… Read More
FORT KENT – The Olympic biathlon team is starting to take shape – on the men’s side, anyway – with one event to go. Maine Winter Sports Center team member Tim Burke of Paul Smiths, N.Y., earned his first career win in an Olympic trials… Read More
FORT KENT – Lowell Bailey attracts a lot of attention, especially on the shooting range. After all, it’s not often you see a lefthanded athlete at the highest level of biathlon competitions in the world. It’s believed he’s one of only three lefties on the World Cup circuit. Read More
FORT KENT – Hilary McNamee of Fort Fairfield was a bit of a surprise to make the team for the world junior and youth championships. But not to herself. McNamee, who is in only her second year competing in biathlon, is one of four women… Read More
FORT KENT – Rachel Steer woke at midnight Friday to a howling wind. So she grabbed a pair of earplugs and went back to sleep. “I knew I wouldn’t sleep a minute if I thought about all that wind and having to deal with that… Read More
FORT KENT – Lanny Kraus was looking directly into near blizzard snow Friday morning at an electronic clock ticking off the seconds as he carefully controlled the start of each biathlete in the sprint competition of the Olympic trials. The veteran timer painstakingly controlled the… Read More
FORT KENT – For some, the icy weather was a hindrance on the course and on the range. For others, the freezing rain that fell at the 10th Mountain Ski Center didn’t matter and even made things fun. Regardless of the weather, shooting well was… Read More
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FORT KENT – The competition jury for the U.S. Olympic biathlon trials decided Thursday afternoon to start Friday’s sprint races an hour later because of the poor weather forecast. The men will start at 11 a.m., instead of 10 a.m., with the women starting at… Read More
The shortest biathlon competition, the sprint covers a distance of 10 kilometers for the men and 7.5K for the women. Competitors start at 30-second intervals. The men will start at 11 a.m., the women at approximately 11:30 a.m. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
FORT KENT – Rachel Steer went about testing and training for the U.S. biathlon Olympic trials in a businesslike fashion Wednesday morning. She kept to herself, skied and shot, firing off a few rounds and then striding back to the scope behind her to make adjustments. Read More
FORT KENT – Almost four years ago, Jeremy Teela shocked the U.S. biathlon community with a 14th-place finish in the individual event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. It was a great moment for Teela, now 29, but it’s been a while… Read More
FORT KENT – Forty-two inches of snow. For most people, that’s an annoyance. And for the athletes participating in the U.S. Olympic biathlon trials starting Thursday, a Christmas storm made getting to the 10th Mountain Ski Center slow going. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
FORT KENT – First-place finishes won’t be necessary. But if you want to make the U.S. Olympic team for the biathlon, you have to shoot clean and ski fast over the course of four days and four competitions. Starting with Thursday’s individual race, 16 men… Read More
FORT KENT – One hundred volunteers a day will be needed during the TD Banknorth Festival at Fort Kent later this month and in early January where the best biathletes in the United States will be competing for nine slots left on the U.S. Biathlon Team. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Almost 30 countries have signed to compete in the 2006 Biathlon Junior World Championships scheduled Jan. 27 through Feb. 5. Officials on the event’s organizing committee said they are close to reaching their goal of bringing 30 nations to the international event. Read More
FORT KENT – The talk has started, committees have been meeting and banners are starting to wave in the winds along Main Street in preparation for the TD Banknorth Festival at Fort Kent where the final qualifying event for selection of the U.S. Biathlon Team for the 2006… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – The world of biathlon events is beating a path to Presque Isle – again. Local officials learned during a recent trip to Finland that Presque Isle won a bid to host the International Biathlon Union organizer’s meeting in 2006. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Officials at the U.S. Biathlon Association and the Maine Winter Sports Center were, at one point, hopeful that they could host another World Cup biathlon event in 2007, three years after they successfully staged the World Cup at Fort Kent’s 10th Mountain Center. Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – World Cup biathlon will return to northern Maine in 2009 and possibly the year before if the schedule allows, as Fort Kent’s 10th Mountain Center again will be host to the top biathlon athletes in the world. U.S. Biathlon Association marketing director… Read More
PRESQUE ISLE – Except for the fairly major detail of there being no snow on the ground, the Maine Winter Sports Center’s Nordic Heritage Center is ready to hold the 2006 World Junior Biathlon Championships tomorrow if need be. That was the verdict of two… Read More
Although children in Aroostook County are on summer vacation and the two major biathlon events scheduled to be held next winter in Fort Kent are more than five months away, biathletes Walt Shepard and Haley Johnson are still thinking about snow and school. Johnson has… Read More
FORT KENT – For biathletes, all the green grass and blue sky in the summer only makes them anticipate a time when the ground will be covered in snow. And in an Olympic training year, that anticipation strikes even sooner. As members of the U.S. Read More