Triple Olympic champion Julia Simon of France kept up her good form beyond last month's Milan/Cortina Games to claim victory in a biathlon World Cup sprint race on Friday in Estonia. Simon won the 7.

While spring is surely in the air, there is still enough snow left in Estonia's winter capital, Otepää in South Estonia, to host this weekend's biathlon world cup stage.

Sweden's Elvira Öberg beat her sister Hanna for victory in the first biathlon World Cup race after the Winter Olympics on Thursday in Finland. Elvira Öberg shot clean in the 15 kilometres individual event in Kontiolahti to claim her second season win to go with the Oberhof sprint in January and a 12th overall.

Otepää's Biathlon World Cup opened Thursday, with events to run to Sunday.

Today concludes the seventh stage of the Biathlon World Cup, taking place in Finland. In the first of the day's two starts, the women's 4x6 km relay will compete, with Baiba Bendika representing Latvia...

Although the Winter Olympic Games have concluded, there are still three stages left in the biathlon season, the first of which began in Finland with the women's individual distance.

Norway's Sturla Holm Lægreid claimed back-to-back victories in the biathlon World Cup when he dominated a sprint race in Estonia on a rainy Thursday.

France's Julia Simon won the women's 12. 5-kilometre mass start in the biathlon World Cup in Kontiolahti on Saturday.