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The
British Biathlon Union
(BBU) is the UK National Governing Body (NGB) for the Olympic winter
sport of Biathlon.
The BBU was incorporated on 23 October 1996 and
selects the GBR teams at all levels.
This site is updated frequently
during the winter season, and periodically from April - November!
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18 May 12 - BBU RUN WITH THE OLYMPIC TORCH
The London 2012 Olympic Torch arrived in the
UK tonight, and in just 3 days time the first of
five BBU runners will participate in the Torch
Relay.
We were allocated 3 slots
for Athletes and 2 for Support Staff. One of the
athletes had to be an Olympian and one Under 25, and
we also wanted a GB & NI-wide representation! The
Famous Five who will surely remember the day for the
rest of their lives are:
Emma
FOWLER was GBR's first, and so far only,
female Olympic biathlete (Turin 2006). Emma is a
Sergeant in the Royal Logistic Corps and has been
given a day off from her RMA Sandhurst Instructor
Cadre to run very close to her home at Cannington,
Somerset. She will run on Monday 21 May at 18:36
near the railway bridge / Belvedere Road in the area
of the junction A 3027 / A 3038 in Taunton.
Matthew REES has been a member
of the BBU "back-office" Support Staff since 2002.
He is our Web and IT guru and runs the British
National Championships (Ex Rucksack) results
service. He lives in Neath, Wales and will be
running close to the Cyfarthfa Industrial Estate on
the Cyfarthfa Road in nearby Merthyr Tydfil at 11:35
on Saturday 26 May.
Eddy LOWE
was the GBR Olympic Team Manager in both 1992 and
1994 and has been a Member of the BBU Board
(currently the Sport Director) since our foundation
in 1996. Eddy, who served in the Royal Engineers for
40 years, is the TD for the British Championships
and will be running close to his home in Northern
Ireland at a time to be confirmed on Thursday 7
June.
Carl GIBSON is our
Under 25 athlete, although he has already
represented GBR in two World Championships. A Lance
Corporal in 2 CS Bn REME, he is currently training
at East Grange Biathlon Centre in Kinloss. He will
run (time tbc) on the afternoon of Monday 18 June
close to his home town of Beverley, East Yorkshire.
Kevin KANE is our
Scottish athlete living in Dumfries, although he
will actually be running in England! Kevin is a
Bombardier in 40 Regt RA who sadly hold their
Disbandment Parade at Edinburgh Castle just 3 days
after he runs in Carlisle, early on Wednesday 20
June. He is currently training in Ruhpolding and
hoping to go to his 5th World Championships next
year.
In addition to our Torch Relay runners, two
Athletes Cpl Amanda LIGHTFOOT AGC and LCpl Pete
BEYER 1 LSR RLC plus Coach SSgt Marc WALKER 1 LSR
RLC have been selected to participate in the BOA's
"Olympic Ambition" programme. This will give them a
unique insight into the Olympic preparation and
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01 May 12 - BOA LOSE DOPING CASE AT COURT OF
ARBITRATION FOR SPORT
The repercussions of the
BOA loosing their case at CAS to continue their
policy of a life-time Olympic ban for convicted
doping cheats will be debated for some considerable
time. Our view is that a minimum 4
year ban for any conviction should be enforced.
British Summer & Winter Olympians overwhelmingly
backed the BOA's stance, as does the BBU.
BBC pundit, former athlete and former
President BBU, Colin Jackson says "he
has no doubt that Dwain Chambers will now be part of
the British Olympic team in London."
"Dwain is in the top tier of sprinters in our
country," he told BBC Sport. "There is no doubt that
he will be at the Olympics. Fans are used to him
being in the team so already he has been accepted
and it has no relevance to the other athletes."
Not quite what he
said in 2008
when he (Jackson) was President of the BBU of
Chambers (who was convicted of taking 7 different
drugs in 2004):
"I'm
really happy Dwain has lost his appeal (against non-selection for
Beijing). This is more about a principle than anything else and
the decision has sent out a clear message that we are not going to
accept people in our team who have committed offences such as
this. Dwain, get on with your life, whatever that might be - we
don't want you in our team.
We tend to share the views (through BBC) of
some other Olympians:
Double Olympic gold-medallist James
Cracknell believes Chambers will find it
difficult to gain the respect of his fellow athletes
in London.
Cracknell said he would have "no desire to
talk to Chambers", adding: "I have no
respect for him on any level. Especially as he was
cheating and he still didn't win. He made the
decision to cheat, therefore there is not going to
be a level of respect from someone who hasn't."
Cracknell, who won rowing gold at the Sydney
Games in 2000 and Athens in 2004, added: "From a
personal point of view, when Dwain Chambers tested
positive he, as most cheats do, said 'I didn't take
anything, it was my supplements'.
"It turns out Dwain was busy injecting
himself with all sorts of stuff. It wasn't his
supplements. He affected the performances of other
people. He lost his team-mates relay medals. He
cheated his opposition."
Former 400m runner Roger Black ,
who was against the overturning of the lifetime ban,
told the BBC: "It's a sad day. It's hard to
cheer someone on who's purposefully tried to cheat
other athletes. I'm not going to boo him, I'm just
going to be indifferent."
He added: "I like Dwain. I think he's
remorseful, but it's easy to be remorseful when
you're caught out. He didn't have to do it in the
first place, because most of us didn't."
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01 May 12 -
RETURN TO RUHPERS
The main squad has
returned to Ruhpolding where they will not be
enjoying the May Day Holiday as training starts
today. Squad Names
Lee-Steve JACKSON (below, at the World Champs)
continues to train in Norway although his support
staff (Scotty BANES) is currently on a military
exercise in Gibraltar!
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01 May 12 -
ATHLETE RETIREMENTS
Fay POTTON (below)
has retired after, unusually, competing in more
World Championship races than in World Cups! She was
also the RAF's first GBR female biathlete and
shortly also retires from the RAF.
Paul
BIRMINGHAM has retired, after 2 years in the IBU Cup
team, to learn to fly Army helicopters, whilst Ben
COTTOM is taking a sabbatical in Afghanistan! |
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Pete BEYER (below) at
the World Champs |
... and Nerys JONES |
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... and Amanda LIGHTFOOT |
... and Marcel LAPONDER |
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... and Adele WALKER |
... and Ben WOOLLEY |
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... and Roger ROBERTS |
... and Ginge ALLANSON |
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...and of course we
could not have operated at the World Champs without
the help of Michele ROBERTS, Scotty BANES & Clemens
FREUND and of course, "waxman of the year" Martin
GLAGOW.
The reserve athletes were Carl GIBSON
& Kevin KANE. Horst WALLNER and his drivers from the
Ruhpolding OK moved us around, and the whole GBR
show was managed by Marc WALKER. |
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01 May 12 - GBR ATHLETES -
SUMMER SQUADS
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Ruhpolding Squad |
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SSgt |
Marc
Walker |
1 LSR
RLC |
Coach |
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Bdr |
Simon
Allanson |
40
Regt RA / 3 RHA |
Asst Coach |
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LCpl |
Pete
Beyer |
1 LSR
RLC |
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LCpl |
Dan
Fuller |
2
RTR |
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Alex
Gleave |
2 CS
Bn REME |
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Bdr |
Steve
Hill |
3 RHA |
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Christian Lewis |
33 EOD
Regt RE |
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Cfn |
Warren
Melia |
2 CS
Bn REME |
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Spr |
Joel
Smith |
28
Engr Regt |
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LCpl |
Ben
Woolley |
17 P&M
Regt RLC |
From Aug 12 |
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LCpl |
Jenna
Beddoe |
39 Engr Regt |
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Cpl |
Nerys
Jones |
AGC |
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Adele
Walker |
29
Regt RLC |
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Independent Training |
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Scott
Dixon |
CBNSC |
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LCpl |
Carl
Gibson |
2 CS
Bn REME |
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Calum
Irvine |
CBNSC |
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LCpl |
Steve-Lee
Jackson |
2 Yorks |
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Bdr |
Kevin Kane |
40 Regt RA /
3 RHA |
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LCpl |
Marcel
Laponder |
28
Engr Regt |
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Cpl |
Amanda
Lightfoot |
AGC |
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Everyone who purchases, or renews a one year (£ 36)
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So ...
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(It's not long until the next Draw on 01 Jul).
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09 Apr 12 -
BACK TO BANGOR
Training has already
started for next season! The National Squad
assembled on 01 April at Bangor University for
testing, competed in a major MTB race at Builth
Wells over Easter and then return to Bangor on 16
April before returning to Ruhpolding.
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24 Mar 12 -
NATIONS CUP - Final Positions:
World Cup:
Men (23rd)
Women (28th)
IBU Cup:
Men (18th)
Women (13th) |
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24
Mar 12 -
SEASON
ROUND UP
Check the
Archive Page for all news from the 2011 - 12
season! |
24 Mar 12 - NDS
JOINING INSTRUCTIONS
Click here! |
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24 Mar 12 - WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Biathlon
World Championships in Ruhpolding were an
unqualified success for the organisers, the IBU and
the 240,000 spectators. We shall be publishing a
"photo special" in a few days.
Unfortunately
they were not a great success for the GBR men's team
who seemed to have peaked a few weeks too early. On
the other hand the women recorded their best ever
Relay result whilst Amanda LIGHTFOOT bettered her
success in the 2011 World Champs with a best ever
GBR women's place (36th) in the Sprint.
The GBR teams were Pete BEYER, Carl GIBSON,
Kevin KANE, Lee-Steve JACKSON, Marcel LAPONDER, Ben
WOOLLEY and
Nerys JONES, Amanda LIGHTFOOT, Fay POTTON, Adele
WALKER.
Support Staff were Marc WALKER,
Martin GLAGOW, Simon ALLANSON and Scot BANES, Roger
ROBERTS and Clemens FREUND.
Click for all Results
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28 Dec
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- WADA
2012
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The new 2012WADA Code (World
Anti-Doping Agency) and List of Prohibited Substances and
Methods has been published. For more details and list of key
changes the logo. |
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We
emphasise the fact that
"ignorance is not an excuse".
It is a personal matter for all
athletes, whether they are an Olympian or a novice, to be aware of the
current banned list and the issues of
drug, doping, blood and gene
testing. National Squad athletes who are unclear should arrange
through their coaches to discuss issues with their regular or sport
specific doctor. Regimental &
Club athletes should contact their RMO / GP in the first instance. |
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