Word: meterlong
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Biathlon, the Games' most eccentric sport, is surely the most demanding. Racers must push their bodies to the thresh old of fatigue, then steady to take dead aim at the four firing points along the trail. Particularly punishing are the 200-meterlong penalty loops that competitors in the relay race must run if they fail to break a target. It is all a far cry from the origins of the sport in Lapland, when dinner depended on a hunter's accuracy. Heikki Ikola of Finland could win the individual event; the Soviets and Finns will go head...
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