Great excitement this weekend as both Julia and Jasper are competing in Austria! You can watch this event live via the web video stream (as long as you don’t mind getting up very early in the morning).
Streaming details can be found by following this link.
Here is a report from Chris Lindsay:
Biathlon Parents,
I hope all is well in Canada – because it sounds like the athletes are pumped up for some great racing beginning tomorrow!
Interesting facts:
-The Youth Women field of 91 athletes is the biggest in the past four years. The Youth Men field of 110 athletes is also the biggest in the past four years.
-If the Junior fields are also the biggest in recent history the total number of athlete will approach 350. That is twice the size of an average World Cup, and far larger than the biggest competition held in Canada.
-To give a better understanding of the total size of the field the number of Youth Men is the same as the total number of athletes who participated at North American Cup #3!
-The Town of Obertilliach has a population of about 750… so with the athletes, staff, officials, volunteers, and spectators the size of the town will have tripled for the duration of the Championships!