The trick to biatholon actually save a womens life once. I can't remember the particulars, but she was an oylimpian.
Anyway, she was out on a training run and was kidnapped by crazy guys out in the middle of nowhere, and she had been shot in the attack. Her training for biatholon includes how to go from high activity to low activity, so when she relized that she was losing too much blood, she was able to calm herself to keep blood lose to a minimum.
Needless to say, our coach used to bring this story up everytime we got to hyped up to shoot slowely.