USA Today · Feb 21, 2017
U.S. biathletes find magic at world championships
USA TODAY Sports' Rachel Axon explains the major story lines to follow heading to Pyeongchang, South Korea.USA TODAY Sports
(Photo: Jan Hetfleisch, Bongarts/Getty Images)Three years ago, biathlete Susan Dunklee watched as Lowell Bailey got his first World Cup podium. A week later, she did the same.
So when she watched Bailey win gold at the IBU World Championships on Saturday, she could only hope to repeat history.
Her silver added to the Americans’ drought-breaking competition in Hochfilzen, Austria, giving the program momentum as it heads into an Olympic year.
“I think part of it was just seeing Lowell break that ground and feeding off that positive momentum that the team gets,” Dunklee said.