Biathlon

There have also been summer competitions in roller-ski biathlon, mountain bike biathlon and orienteering biathlon. The video also contains Hootie & The Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker. Two common variations on biathlon are summer biathlon, where skiing is replaced by a cross-country run, and archery biathlon (or ski archery), where the rifle is replaced by a longbow. This video shows more scenes and has more lyrics for Fergie than any other video the Black Eyed Peas have done. Since 2002 the stadium has hosted a special end-of-year mixed team event, now called the "Veltins Biathlon World Team Challenge". There are also scenes where Fergie seductively moves in front of a car as a prop. *The Veltins-Arena, located in Gelsenkirchen and renamed from Arena AufSchalke in July 2005, is the stadium of German football club FC Schalke 04. Apl.de.ap, Taboo and will.i.am sing about how much they spend on Fergie as she sings about her "lovely" body parts such as her "lumps" and "humps".

(Due to the complicated shooting range equipment, which absolutely has to work in order to hold successful races, biathlon is a highly demanding sport for organisers.). The official music video for "My Humps" premiered on TRL and shows Fergie dancing with backup dancers as images of expensive items such as Louis Vuitton purses and jewelry appear on the screen. World Cup events and World Championships in biathlon have traditionally been held at the following relatively few locations. These files were actually clips of pornography. Since 2004, this race format has been obsolete at the World Cup level. Following the song's popularity, several videos were placed on file-sharing servers claiming to be the video for the song. The skiers must enter the shooting area together, and must also finish within 15 seconds of each other, otherwise a time penalty of 1 minute is added to the total time. Although it wasn't based on it, the song and "Milkshake" have similar topics and music.

In case of a miss, the two non-shooting biathletes must ski a penalty loop of 150 m. The song has a similar structure and instruments from Kelis' song, "Milkshake". Two athletes must shoot in the prone shooting round, the other two in the standing round. The song refers to "humps", as in one's rear end, and "lumps", as in a woman's breasts. A team consists of four biathletes, but unlike the case of the Relay competition, all team members start at the same time. In this sexual number, a woman (in this case, Fergie) uses her breasts and her buttocks as tools to get guys to spend money on her. The first-leg participants start all at the same time, and as in cross-country skiing relays, every athlete of a team must touch the team's next-leg participant to perform a valid exchange. The song was co-written and produced by will.i.am, and interpolates Sexual Harrasment's "I Need A Freak".

If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each miss. . For every round of five targets there are eight bullets available, though the last three can only be loaded one at a time from trays at the shooting range. As the song had not been officially promoted, it became labeled as a runaway hit. Teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 km (men) or 6 km (women), with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. It was not promoted as a single ("Don't Lie" was released in its place), but since radio programmers and consumers were not pleased with "Don't Lie", they began to play and download "My Humps" instead. As in the Sprint competition, the biathletes start in intervals. The song is most known as the most successful unsolicited single in history.

For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. Top 40 making it their sixth Top 10 single. The biathlete shoots four times, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. The single also reached #3 in the U.K. The 20 km Individual race (15 km for women) is the oldest biathlon event. mainstream radio charts. This is a smaller number than the 60 in the Pursuit since here all of them start at the same time. Released in 2005, the single reached a position of #3 in the USA becoming The Black Eyed Peas' third Top 10 single on the U.S.

Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line. It is notable for creating a strong polarized reaction in pop culture- critics have lambasted its insipid lyrics and vulgar content, while others appreciate the fact that it is the epitome of dance music. As in Sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. "My Humps" is the third single from The Black Eyed Peas' fourth album Monkey Business. In this 15 km (12.5 km for women) competition, there are four bouts of shooting; two standing, two prone. In the Mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins.

To prevent awkward and/or dangerous crowding in the skiing track, and undercapacity at the shooting range, World Cup Pursuits are held with only the 60 top ranking biathletes after the preceding race. The distance is 12.5 km for men and 10 km for women, there are four shooting bouts (two prone, two standing), and each miss means a penalty loop of 150 m. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner. In a Pursuit, biathletes' starts are separated by their time difference from a previous race, most commonly a Sprint.

Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds, but sometimes by only 20 seconds. For each miss, a penalty loop of 150 m must be skied before the race can be continued. The biathlete shoots twice, once prone and once standing, for a total of 10 shots. The sprint is 10 km for men and 7.5 km for women.

On all modern biathlon ranges, the targets are self-indicating, in that they flip from black to white when hit, giving the biathlete as well as the spectators instant visual feedback for each shot fired. Prone shooting target diameter is 45 mm, standing is 115 mm. There are five circular targets to be hit in each shooting round. The target range shooting distance is 50 m.

The rifles use .22 LR ammunition and are bolt action. The biathlete carries the 3.5 kg small bore rifle including ammunition in magazines on her/his back during the race. Minimal ski length is 4 cm less than the height of the skier. No other equipment than skis and ski poles may be used for moving along the track.

All cross-country skiing techniques are permitted in biathlon, which means that the free technique is usually the preferred one, being the fastest. The large display screens commonly set up at biathlon arenas, as well as the information graphics shown as part of the TV picture, will typically list the split time of the fastest contestant at each intermediate point and the time differences to the first five to ten runners-up. To keep track of the contestants' progress and relative standing throughout a race, split times (intermediate times) are taken at several points along the skiing track and upon finishing each shooting round. For each shooting round, the biathlete must hit five targets; each missed target must be "atoned for" in one of three ways, depending on the competition format:.

As in most races, the contestant with the shortest total time wins. Depending on the shooting performance, extra distance or time is added to the contestant's total running distance/time. In short, a biathlon competition consists of a race in which contestants ski around a cross-country track, and where the total distance is broken up by either two or four shooting rounds, half in prone position, the other half standing. However, the concise description given below, along with the section on competition format, should be enough for a spectator to understand what is going on at a biathlon stadium whether actually being there or at home watching a televised biathlon event.

The complete rules of biathlon is given in the official IBU rule book (see External links, below). Contrary to the Olympics and World Championships (BWCH), the World Cup (BWC) is an entire winter season of (mostly) weekly races, where the medalists are those with the highest sums of World Cup points at the end of the season. The following articles list major international biathlon events and medalists. Presidents of the UIPMB/IBU:.

In 1993, the biathlon branch of the UIPMB created the International Biathlon Union (IBU), which officially separated from the UIPMB in 1998. In 1948, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon (UIPMB) was founded, to standardise the rules for biathlon and pentathlon. At Albertville in 1992, women were first allowed in Olympic biathlon. The first World Championship in the sport was held in 1958 in Austria, and in 1960 the sport was finally included in the Olympic Games.

Called military patrol, the combination of skiing and shooting was demonstrated at the Olympic Winter Games in 1924, 1928, 1936 and 1948, but did not gain Olympic recognition then, as the small number of competing countries disagreed on the rules (see also Governing body, below). Gradually the sport became more common throughout Scandinavia as an alternative training for the military. The first known competition took place in 1767 when border patrol companies competed against each other. The sport has its origins in an exercise for Norwegian soldiers.

. The broadcast distribution being one indicator, the constellation of a sport's main sponsors usually gives a similar indication of popularity: for biathlon, these are the Germany-based companies E.ON Ruhrgas (energy), Krombacher (beer), and Viessmann (boilers and other heating systems). Biathlon events are broadcast most regularly where the sport enjoys its greatest popularity, namely Germany (ARD, ZDF), Norway (NRK), Finland (YLE), Sweden (SVT), Russia (RTR), Belarus (TVR), Slovenia (RTV), and Estonia (ETV); it is also broadcast on European-wide Eurosport. Another popular variant is summer biathlon, which combines cross-country running with riflery.

Biathlon, however, refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. The name biathlon is commonly confused with duathlon, the term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. by having to use an "extra cartridge" (placed at the shooting range) to finish off the target; only three such "extras" are available for each round, and a penalty loop must be made for each of the targets still remaining after expending the "extras". by having one minute added to one's total skiing time, or.

by making a skiing round in a 150 m penalty loop, typically taking 20–30 seconds for top-level biathletes to complete (running time depending on weather/snow conditions),. Biathlon World Cup champions. Biathlon World Championships. Olympic medalists in biathlon.

From  1992: Anders Besseberg (Norway). 1988–1992: Igor Novikov (USSR/Russia). 1960–1988: Sven Thofelt, (Sweden). 1949–1960: Gustaf Dyrssen (Sweden).

1948–1949: Tom Wiborn (Sweden).