Back to the Top News Newsfeed

Sometimes a Competitor, Always a Supporter: Siblings Fill Multiple Roles at Olympics

BEIJING — Christian and Scott Gow have been together since Day One, if not in birth then at least in biathlon. Now 31 and 28 years old, respectively, the Canadian brothers first signed up for the sport at the same summer camp. They have trained together at the same facilities, raced together at the same events, reached the World Cup circuit at the same time and, most recently, finished sixth in the men’s 4x7.5-kilometer relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics together.

“We’ve been able to experience quite a bit together,“ Christian says. “I can’t imagine what it’d be like to be apart, because we literally never have.