If you want to know what a Biathlon is and how really hard it is to do, I recorded a report A million years ago before the prehistoric ages. in the early Aughts on just what one is.
https://legacy.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jan/biathlon/020104.goldman.html On Thursday, October 7, 2021 at 7:39:51 PM UTC-7 dan...@panix.com wrote: > The question for Final Jeopardy was "what's the [Olympic] Biathlon?" > > One contestant wrote "Biathalon", adding an extra > syllable in the middle. So they clobbered him. > > (He'd have still only been second place, but this > knocked his total to zero") > > However, thanks to those stalwart researchers: > > [twitter] > > Aria Gerson > @aria_gerson > Replying to > @_thejeopardyfan > it was a while back but they've given credit for "triathalon" in the past, > it's kind of a problem if they're not consistent with it > > https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1706&highlight=triathalon > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > dan...@panix.com > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/8cfbc683-6e3e-4121-b0d3-8880e62adc36n%40googlegroups.com.
