U.S. Biathlon Team Speaks Out For Gun Control
The sport's athletes must ski across the course, then calm their breathing and use rifles to fire at a target. For biathletes, the fact that their sport involves firearms isn't always comfortable.
Biathlon links two things that don't often go together, at least in the United States: cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It's the only Winter Olympic sport in which the U.S. has never medaled.
The sport "combines the power and aggression of cross-country skiing with the precision and calm of marksmanship," the Olympics says, adding that biathlon "has its roots in survival skills practised
