The Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast

Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast Episode 31 Ukaleq Slettemark Part 1

Part one of our interview with Ukaleq Slettemark covers a lot! We discussed her podcast, the Olympics, her summer plans, art and the typical questions about the life of a biathlete on the World Cup.
Part two will be posted next week!
Jordan & RJ

Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast Episode 30 Vanessa Hinz Part2

As we continue our interview with German biathlete Vanessa Hinz, we talk more about biathlon, her life as a biathlete in Germany/Europe, bibs, activities outside of biathlon and more of our questions.
We hope you will enjoy!
RJ & Jordan

Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast Episode 29 Jules Burnotte Part 2

In this second part of our interview with Canadian biathlete Jules Burnotte, we continued our conversation about Testival, life on the World Cup, Analytics and many more of our recurring questions.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
RJ & Jordan

Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast Episode 28 Vanessa Hinz Part 1

In part one of our interview with German biathlete Vanessa Hinz, we went through the usual questions and talked about changing coaches, the IBU rule changes, life on the World Cup and Analytics.
Part 2 will follow in 2 weeks!
RJ & Jordan

Penalty Loop Biathlon Podcast Episode 27 Jules Burnotte Part 1

In the first part of our interview with Canadian biathlete Jules Burnotte, we asked our usual questions and talked about the IBU rule changes, his career, his development path, his Olympic Games and finally about biathlon rifles.
Part 2 will follow in 2 weeks!
RJ & Jordan (who had Covid so was a little under the weather) 

Interview with Matthias Ahrens, part 2

In this second part of our interview with Matthias Ahrens, we talk analytics, some more of our standard podcast questions and much more.
You can find more information about Matthias through the following links:
https://biathlon.ca/biathlon-alberta-training-center/coaching-staff/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335878529_Can_performance_in_biathlon_world_cup_be_predicted_by_performance_analysis_of_biathlon_IBU_cup
We hope you enjoy it!
 

Rule changes by the IBU

Jordan and RJ discuss the rule changes the IBU just announced yesterday, and how they could impact the biathlon World Cup. They also have some thoughts on other changes that could be interesting for the future.

Interview with Matthias Ahrens, part 1

In this episode, we talked with Matthias Ahrens, former head coach of the Canadian Biathlon team, and currently coaching a new generation of Canadian biathletes at the Biathlon Alberta Training Centre. Part one covers his introduction, biathlon coaching and our usual questions.
 
You can find more information about Matthias through the following links:
https://biathlon.ca/biathlon-alberta-training-center/coaching-staff/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335878529_Can_performance_in_biathlon_world_cup_be_predicted_by_performance_analysis_of_biathlon_IBU_cup
We hope you enjoy it!
 

Interview with Kristian Wulff

We had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Kristian Wulff from Denmark about biathlon in his home country, biathlon venues, broadcasting, analysis, the IBU family, team collaboration, athletes and much more. Please join us in this interesting conversation, and send your feedback to penaltylooppodcast@gmail.com or reach out to us on Twitter.
Follow Kristian's Studio .22 Podcast or reach out to him on Twitter.

Egil Gjelland Interview #1

This is our first of will hopefully be many interviews with Egil Gjelland. We covered a lot!
00:00 Intro to interview
5:43 Egil joins
19:00 https://skjelbreidpoiree.com/
25:00 Czech Women Training Camp update
39:20 Davidova?
43:55 Fun time
59:30 Future of biathlon. See https://vismaskiclassics.com for more info on what RJ and Egil are talking about