O. J. Simpson

The civil and criminal trials of Simpson were not the only important legal cases that were spawned by the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994. There have also been summer competitions in roller-ski biathlon, mountain bike biathlon and orienteering biathlon. In June 2004, Simpson had planned a long series of news appearances to mark the tenth anniversary of the killings, but ended up being displaced by another story – the death and funeral of former President Reagan. 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. Carroll responded to the criticism by proclaiming "we respect our Heisman Trophy winners.". Since 2002 the stadium has hosted a special end-of-year mixed team event, now called the "Veltins Biathlon World Team Challenge". The Southern California coach Pete Carroll allowed Simpson to come onto the field and mingle with the players and pose for pictures. *The Veltins-Arena, located in Gelsenkirchen and renamed from Arena AufSchalke in July 2005, is the stadium of German football club FC Schalke 04.

Prior to the 2004 Orange Bowl football game featuring Simpson's USC Trojans, the former football star showed up unannounced at a USC practice. (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.). Also, Simpson considered becoming a news commentator for actor Robert Blake's murder trial. World Cup events and World Championships in biathlon have traditionally been held at the following relatively few locations. There were plans for him to have a reality TV show in the style of The Osbournes in 2003. Since 2004, this race format has been obsolete at the World Cup level. In 2001, he was involved in a road rage case that received some publicity, but he was again found not guilty. 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.

In 1998 at the end of an interview conducted by Ruby Wax for BBC1, Simpson mimed stabbing her with a banana while mimicking the theme music from Psycho. In case of a miss, the two non-shooting biathletes must ski a penalty loop of 150 m. He was accused of illegally accessing signals from DirecTV. Two athletes must shoot in the prone shooting round, the other two in the standing round. He seemed to have a knack for appearing in news stories that often had nothing directly to do with him. A team consists of four biathletes, but unlike the case of the Relay competition, all team members start at the same time. Even after his two trials Simpson was never far from the news. 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.

In 2000, Simpson won custody of his children in a second trial. If after eight bullets there are still misses, one 150 m penalty loop must be taken for each miss. The ruling was thrown out when an appeals court determined that it was wrong to exclude evidence from the murder trial [1]. 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. In late 1998 Simpson won a custody trial filed by the Browns. Teams consist of four biathletes, who each ski 7.5 km (men) or 6 km (women), with two shooting rounds; one prone, one standing. When Simpson was acquitted, he was given back custody over the children. As in the Sprint competition, the biathletes start in intervals.

While Simpson was in prison during the murder trial, Nicole Brown's parents, Louis and Juditha Brown, had custody over Simpson's younger children Sidney and Justin. For each missed target a fixed penalty time, usually one minute, is added to the skiing time of the biathlete. It is still speculated among most people that he is guilty. The biathlete shoots four times, in the order of prone, standing, prone, standing, totalling 20 targets. Simpson has not filed for bankruptcy. The 20 km Individual race (15 km for women) is the oldest biathlon event. In Florida a person's residence cannot be seized to collect a debt under most circumstances. This is a smaller number than the 60 in the Pursuit since here all of them start at the same time.

He subsequently moved from California to Miami, Florida. Here again, to avoid unwanted congestion, World Cup Mass starts are held with only the 30 top ranking athletes on the start line. A 2000 Rolling Stone article reported that Simpson also still makes a significant income by signing autographs. As in Sprint races, competitors must ski one 150 m penalty loop for each miss. However, California law protects pensions from being used to satisfy judgments, so Simpson was able to continue much of his lifestyle based on his NFL pension. In this 15 km (12.5 km for women) competition, there are four bouts of shooting; two standing, two prone. Simpson was ordered to pay $33,500,000 in damages. In the Mass start, all biathletes start at the same time and the first across the finish line wins.

Attorney for plaintiff Fred Goldman (father of Ronald Goldman) was Daniel Petrocelli. 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. On February 4, 1997 a civil jury in Santa Monica, California found Simpson liable for the wrongful death of Ronald Goldman, battery against Ronald Goldman, and battery against Nicole Brown. 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. With the damage done to his public reputation, his acting career was ruined. The contestant crossing the finish line first is the winner. There have been significant criticisms of the prosecution and some still feel that Simpson should have been found guilty. In a Pursuit, biathletes' starts are separated by their time difference from a previous race, most commonly a Sprint.

After one of the most widely publicized arrests and trials in American history, Simpson was found not guilty. Competitors' starts are staggered, normally by 30 seconds, but sometimes by only 20 seconds. Simpson was soon charged with their murders. For each miss, a penalty loop of 150 m must be skied before the race can be continued. On June 12, 1994 his former wife Nicole Brown and friend Ronald Goldman were found dead outside Brown's condominium. The biathlete shoots twice, once prone and once standing, for a total of 10 shots. He was paying substantial child support. The sprint is 10 km for men and 7.5 km for women.

Simpson had pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge and was separated from Nicole. 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. He also hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live but he was the only host not invited to attend the program's 25th anniversary celebration special in 1999. Prone shooting target diameter is 45 mm, standing is 115 mm. Besides his acting career, Simpson had stints as a commentator for Monday Night Football and The NFL on NBC. There are five circular targets to be hit in each shooting round. Simpson was spokesman for the pX Corporation, and he appeared in comic book ads for Dingo shoes. The target range shooting distance is 50 m.

He would often be shown running through airports, as if to suggest he was back on the football field. The rifles use .22 LR ammunition and are bolt action. He was a spokesman for the Hertz rental-car company (Ford vehicles are usually found in Hertz rental fleets, hence the nickname 'Simpsons' for the cars). The biathlete carries the 3.5 kg small bore rifle including ammunition in magazines on her/his back during the race. Simpson's amiable persona and natural charisma landed him numerous endorsement deals. Minimal ski length is 4 cm less than the height of the skier. Simpson was considered for the lead role in The Terminator, before it was decided audiences might not accept him as a villain. No other equipment than skis and ski poles may be used for moving along the track.

After his retirement from football, Simpson went on to a successful film career with parts in films such as the television mini-series Roots, and the motion pictures The Cassandra Crossing, Capricorn One, The Towering Inferno, and The Naked Gun trilogy. All cross-country skiing techniques are permitted in biathlon, which means that the free technique is usually the preferred one, being the fastest. They had two children, Sydney Brooke Simpson (born October 17, 1985) and Justin Ryan Simpson (born August 6, 1988), and were divorced in 1992. 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. On February 2, 1985 Simpson married Nicole Brown. 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. That same year Simpson and Marguerite were divorced. 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:.

In 1979, Aaren drowned in the family's swimming pool a month before her second birthday. As in most races, the contestant with the shortest total time wins. Simpson (born April 21, 1970) and Aaren Lashone Simpson (born September 24, 1977). Depending on the shooting performance, extra distance or time is added to the contestant's total running distance/time. Simpson (born December 4, 1968), Jason L. 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. Together they had three children: Arnelle L. 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.

Whitley. The complete rules of biathlon is given in the official IBU rule book (see External links, below). On June 24, 1967 Simpson married Marguerite L. 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. Simpson has eight siblings named George, Sue, Emily, Abraham, Kyra, Kirsten, Bryant, and Jim. The following articles list major international biathlon events and medalists. Away from football but within sports, he won the 1975 American Superstars competition. Presidents of the UIPMB/IBU:.

He is a member of the Bills' Wall of Fame. In 1993, the biathlon branch of the UIPMB created the International Biathlon Union (IBU), which officially separated from the UIPMB in 1998. After being traded to the San Francisco 49ers in 1978, Simpson retired from the NFL the following year, and on January 23, 1985 became the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1948, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon (UIPMB) was founded, to standardise the rules for biathlon and pentathlon. Simpson went on to earn All-Pro honors five times and amassed 11,236 rushing yards during his career. At Albertville in 1992, women were first allowed in Olympic biathlon. He also had back-to-back 200 yard performances in both 1973 and 1976. 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.

Over his career, Simpson ran for an NFL record 6 200-yard games, three of which occurred in 1973. 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). His 1973 performance earned him the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. Gradually the sport became more common throughout Scandinavia as an alternative training for the military. "The Juice" powered one of the league's top rushing offenses, and ran behind the famed "Electric Company" offensive line. The first known competition took place in 1767 when border patrol companies competed against each other. Simpson's yards per game average was ten yards higher than that of the closest competitor. The sport has its origins in an exercise for Norwegian soldiers.

Eric Dickerson holds the 16-game season and overall records with 2,105 yards rushing in 1984). . Although his 2,003 yard season has subsequently been eclipsed by four running backs, only Barry Sanders managed to match Simpson by rushing for 2,000 or more yards in 14 games (Weeks 3-16 of the 1997 season; including Weeks 1 & 2, Sanders rushed for 2,053 yards. 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). In 1973 Simpson ran for a then-record 2,003 yards, becoming the first player ever to eclipse the 2,000 yard mark, and was voted the league's Most Valuable Player. 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. Simpson was selected by the American Football League's Buffalo Bills, who held the first selection in the draft after finishing 1-12-1 in 1968 - the worst record in professional football. Another popular variant is summer biathlon, which combines cross-country running with riflery.

After originally playing in Junior College at the City College of San Francisco, his talent landed him at the University of Southern California (USC) and won him the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, the nickname "The Juice", and the distinction of being the first player selected in the 1969 professional football draft after winning the Heisman Trophy. Biathlon, however, refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. While attending Galileo High School in San Francisco, Simpson played for the school's football team, the Galileo Lions. 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". He was found liable and responsible for their deaths in civil court in 1997. by having one minute added to one's total skiing time, or.

He was acquitted in criminal court in 1995 after a lengthy, highly publicized and controversial trial. 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),. Although considered to be one of the greatest running backs of all time, Simpson is now best known for being charged with the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994. Biathlon World Cup champions. Orenthal James Simpson (born July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, California), publicly known by the initials O.J., and nicknamed The Juice, was a Hall of Fame former college and professional football player and film actor. Biathlon World Championships. The Naked Gun 33⅓:The Final Insult (1994). Olympic medalists in biathlon.

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991). From  1992: Anders Besseberg (Norway). The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad! (1988). 1988–1992: Igor Novikov (USSR/Russia). Capricorn One (1978). 1960–1988: Sven Thofelt, (Sweden). The Cassandra Crossing (1976). 1949–1960: Gustaf Dyrssen (Sweden).

The Towering Inferno (1974). 1948–1949: Tom Wiborn (Sweden). The Klansman (1974). was a former football player, was in a police chase, and was in a controversial murder trial within the scope of the three PS2 GTA games. B.J.

Simpson. Smith is a parody of O.J. In the popular Grand Theft Auto series of videogames, the character B.J. Simpson's search for his wife's killer was parodied in the Doonesbury comic strip.

was referenced prior to the murder case in an episode of Seinfeld, "The Masseuse", in which Elaine suggests her then-boyfriend, Joel Rifkin, change his name to O.J. O.J. Simpson has since abandoned his trademarks. Ritchie convinced the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that he had standing to challenge Simpson's trademarks under the Lanham Act.

Ritchie argued that because of the whole sequence of events from 1994 through 1997, Simpson's very name had become immoral and scandalous and thus could not be protected as a trademark. Ritchie, challenged the validity of Simpson's trademarks under a federal statute that bars immoral, deceptive, or scandalous subject matter. A New Hampshire intellectual property attorney, William B. Kaelin settled his lawsuit for an undisclosed amount.

The district court granted summary judgment to the defendant, but on appeal, Kaelin convinced the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that he had a valid claim for defamation. Simpson's houseguest on the night of the murders, Brian "Kato" Kaelin, sued Globe Communications for $15 million after it ran a headline in one of its tabloid newspapers insinuating that Kaelin was the real murderer. Their subsequent legal battle with the IRS culminated in the rule that they could not apply the drop in their house's value as a casualty loss deduction on their income tax return, because it was only temporary. The media circus and hordes of curious tourists tormented them (and the rest of Simpson's neighbors) for the next four years.

Gerald Chamales and his wife, Kathleen, bought a house next to Simpson's just ten days before the murders of which he was accused.