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The Youth Winter Olympic Games have brought
me to Lillehammer

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and to the biathlon range.

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Now I can remember watching the Winter Olympics
when I was a kid

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and I never really understood biathlon.

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It seemed so arbitrary. You ski somewhere,

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then you shoot at some targets, and then you
ski again.

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It felt like a really weird combination of
events.

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But there is a reason for it.

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Because yes, the biathlon is a ski race,

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but it's based, many many years ago, on military
training.

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You know how target shooters say it's all
about controlling your body,

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it's all about keeping your breathing regulated?

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Well, try keeping your breathing regulated
right after a cross-country skiing race.

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GEIR OLE STEINSLETT: When they come into the
shooting range

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they start breathing good, they're checking
the wind flags

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because the wind is affecting the bullet very
much.

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They take out their rifle in the right position,

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they have to put in a magazine with five shots,

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and it's a half-kilogram weight you have to
put on the trigger.

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Then you do this five times, and then your
rifle on your back,

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and then you start skiing as fast as possible
again!

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TS: So I'm not much of an athlete,

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I can just about do a 5K, my resting heart
rate's okay, but...

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I'm not much compared to these guys.

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They'll get their resting heart rate as low
as possible, as quickly as possible,

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using all sorts of techniques...

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I'm not sure I'm going to be quite so good
at it(!)

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GOS: He should be happy if he gets one hit!

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TS: Teach me to shoot a biathlon rifle!

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GOS: Lie down. And this in your shoulder.

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TS: In my shoulder. Yep. Take that back.

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GOS: And you can then... it's ready!

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TS: It's ready. Loaded gun.

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GOS: Now it's a 'bang'. Loaded gun.

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TS: Okay. So... aim at number 12...

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Well, I missed.

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GOS: Miss! Reloading, back and forward.

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You hit the metal.

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TS: I hit the metal.

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GOS: Oh, it's a hit!

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TS: Ha! Okay, that's, er...

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One out of five, all right.

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So now I would get up and go skiing.

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I can't ski.

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So what's actually going to happen:

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is I'm going to get up, and I'm going to go
for a run.

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Okay. [panting]

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That's so difficult!

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I didn't think that would have...

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such a great effect.

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But I'm genuinely...

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...having to time my breathing.

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I didn't even hit the metal on that last one!
Wow.

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I genuinely didn't expect that to be quite
as difficult as it was.

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I knew there'd be an effect, I knew breathing
made a difference

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but it was like I was lying down and the target
was on a boat

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bouncing up and down in front of me.

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And you're just willing yourself, just

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stop breathing just for a minute so I can
calm down.

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It just doesn't work.

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That's a heck of a sport.

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There's a load more videos over on the Olympics
channel

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and on my channel, go check 'em out, go subscribe

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and thank you to the Youth Winter Olympic
Games

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for bringing me out here to Lillehammer.

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