skiing and shooting
The correct spelling is biathlon instead of biathlon. A biathlon is a contest or sporting event, where two events are combined for athletes to compete in.
The Olympic, and for that matter, any, biathlon, consists of two events. In the case of the Olympics, these two events are cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
Nordic combined and Biathlon.
shooting & cross-country skiing
Cross country skiing and rifle shooting.
She won two silver medals - one in the Downhill event, and one in the Combined event.
Andy Mill was a two time Olympic champion, but he did not win any medals. He was a member of the US Ski Team and competed in the downhill and combined events. He placed sixth in the downhill at the Olympics.
it's biathlon: cross-country skiing and shooting
Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Other popular variants include summer biathlon, which combines cross-country running with riflery, modern biathlon and biathle, which combine running with swimming.
biat or oneathlon source: my humongous brain
i cannot be certain but if you look at triathlon and biathlon, they are both phisically demanding events, and in biathlon bi means two, ath means compitition, so i have concluded that lon means a phisically demanding event such as running