There are many reasons why Ole Einar Bjorndalen is called the “King of Biathlon.” The impressive statistics that include 13 Olympic medals (8 Gold), 580 World Cup starts, 45 IBU World Championship medals (19 Gold) and 6 IBU World Cup Total Score titles only tell part of the story. Ole was the competitor of competitors, always intense, focused on winning, and always looking for one more tweak, regardless of how small that would allow him to improve. Every career has peaks and valleys, but in between the 1997/98 and 2008/09 seasons, he was the best period, finishing first or second in the Total Score every year except one when he dropped…to third. In that time frame, he won 16 discipline globes in addition to the six Total Score titles. His competitive fire was never better than at the 1998 Nagano OWG when the sprint that he was leading was cancelled mid-way through the competition. The next day he returned and won his first Olympic Gold medal. He was at his very best in the 2002 Salt Lake OWG when he became the only man ever to sweep the four biathlon events: sprint, pursuit, individual and men’s relay. Until the end of his career, Ole was always in the fight for medals, claiming his last IBU WCH medal in the 2017 pursuit. His record remains above everyone else; Ole Einar Bjorndalen remains the “King of Biathlon.”