Biathlon

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

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Christian Gow announced his retirement. This marks the end of an era for Canadian men's biathlon since he was the last remaining member of the relay team that won bronze at 2016 Worlds.

[JockCartier 117]

Will be strange watching the World Cup without the Gow's. They were kinda the last echo of the Vancouver 2010 funding boom.

It's too bad, by 2014 and 2015 the program was really solid and if we had kept even moderate funding could have been a top 5-8 nation. Sadly, the money was long gone by then, and those athletes started peeling off and we've faded back to being minnows

[intoronto 5,635]

World / IBU cup teams announced: https://sirc.ca/news/eight-canadian-biathletes-named-to-the-ibu-world-cup-team/

[Topicmaster1010 4,166]

I think there's a real possibility we don't qualify a mens relay team for 2026. The women should be fine I think.