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Article: Biathlon coming back to Maine Fort Kent site for '09 World Cup

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PRESQUE ISLE - World Cup biathlon will return to northern Maine in 2009 and possibly the year before if the schedule allows, as Fort Kent's 10th Mountain Center again will be host to the top biathlon athletes in the world.

U.S. Biathlon Association marketing director Max Cobb and Maine Winter Sports Center president Andy Shepard said Friday the International Biathlon Union's eight-member executive board voted about a week ago to return to Fort Kent, site of a successful World Cup stop in March

2004.

"We have a guarantee for a World Cup in 2009 in connection with the Olympics in Vancouver," Cobb said. "The opportunity is still available for us in 2008, so we can have World Cups in ...

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