Biathlon is a good thing

You ski a while. You shoot a few elk. Ski some more.

I’m not sure if they score it by stopwatch or by body count.

Probably both.

Reminds me of that famous song from American Sportsman, the 1960s show in which Curt Gowdy would take some time off from incompetent baseball announcing in order to enter the wilderness and do rugged, manly stuff, like bludgeoning baby seals, with a rugged, manly guest star like Bing Crosby or Phyllis Diller:

Follow me through virgin forests
Follow me to rippling streams
And if God is willing
Some elk we’ll be killing
Come, follow me

Anyway, that was a particularly prolix way to say that a biathlon star, Miriam Neureuther, looks great without her top

3 thoughts on “Biathlon is a good thing

  1. Nice find. For those you want more of that biathlon action, you’ll find it searching under Miriam’s maiden name, as the black and white photo is from Miriam Gössner’s shoot for Playboy Germany (2014)

    1. Ain’t that the truth. As much as I love the rich history of baseball and the way it intertwines with the history of the country itself, and as many words as I have written about that game, I really can’t make it through a game. I have to catch the highlights on Sports Center or Baseball Tonight in order to stay interested. It moves about as fast as Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction.

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