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What does biathlon mean?
According to official website's inquiry, according to the State Sports General Administration, biathlon refers to cross-country skiing and shooting.

1, biathlon originated in Scandinavia and is related to people's hunting activities in winter. This is a skiing and shooting competition. 1 World Modern Biathlon Championship was held in 1958, and 1960 Biathlon was listed as the Winter Olympics and named as Modern Biathlon.

2. Biathlon is a combination of cross-country skiing and shooting. Athletes with small caliber rifles on their backs, snowboards on their feet, ski poles in their hands and guns, slide all the way along the marked slide in the right direction and order. Athletes shoot at every distance they skate, and the first one to reach the finish line wins the championship. In the competition, cross-country skiing adopts freestyle. When shooting vertically, the competitor must stop and put the pole on the ground before shooting. When shooting horizontally, players need to support their elbows on the ground to shoot. In individual events and short-distance competitions, players can choose the target position. In the chase and team start, the first player to reach the shooting point enters the target position 1, the second player enters the target position 2, and so on.