Biathlon: France Télévisions acquires the TV rights to the Loop One Festival
Although La Chaîne L’Equipe has had the rights to broadcast the biathlon World Cup free of charge for many years, it will not be offering its viewers the Loop One Festival in Munich (Germany) on Sunday.
It has to be said that, as Nordic Magazine has learned, it was quite simply France Télévisions that acquired the TV rights to the new event set up by the IBU to open the Olympic season in style. However, the Loop One Festival super sprint finals will not be broadcast on the public service’s linear channels (France 2, France 3, France 4).
You’ll have to visit the France.tv platform to get footage of the event: the footage will be taken at 3.30pm, a few minutes before the start of the men’s race (scheduled for 3.42pm), and returned at 5pm, after the women’s competition (scheduled for 4.23pm).
Alexandre Boyon will be commentating from Paris with Frédéric Jean as consultant. Finally, to watch the qualifiers, the Eurovision Sport platform is the best option.
The programme for the Loop One Festival in Munich 🇩🇪
Saturday 18 October
- 11:00: 4 all biathlon
- 12.15pm: seated para-biathlon relay
- 12.55pm: Para biathlon single mixed relay for the visually impaired
- 13:35: men’s para biathlon standing mass-start
- 16:00: young men’s mass-start
- 16:30: young women’s mass-start
- 17:00: Para-biathlon and youth prize-giving ceremonies
Sunday 19 October
- 10:20-10:50: Men’s shooting trials
- 11.00: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat 1
- 11.20am: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat 2
- 11.40am: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 3
- 12.00: Men’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 4
- 12.20pm-12.50pm: Women’s shooting trials
- 13:00: Ladies’ super sprint qualifying heat 1
- 1.20pm: Women’s super sprint qualifying heat 2
- 1.40pm: Women’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 3
- 2.00 pm: women’s super sprint qualifying heat no. 4
- 3.42pm: men’s super sprint final
- 4.23pm: Women’s super sprint final
- 5pm: prize-giving ceremony
- The full programme of the Loop One Festival in Munich, the show organised by the IBU to open the 2025/2026 season.
- The IBU launches the Loop One Festival, the opening event of the 2025/2026 season in Munich
- “Stéphane Bouthiaux regrets the late announcement of the Loop One Festival, the IBU’s urban showcase at the start of the season.
- The IBU’s urban show at the start of the season has changed the Summer Tour schedule: the first stage will take place in Arçon in September, the second in La Féclaz in October.
- France has nine quotas for the Loop One Festival, an urban show organised by the IBU on 19 October in Munich.
- The crème de la crème: the names of the nine French riders selected for the Loop One Festival, the season-opening show organised by the IBU in Munich.
- The Summer Tour of La Féclaz rather than the Loop One Festival in Munich for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
- Germany with Franziska Preuss, Justus Strelow, Selina Grotian and Janina Hettich-Walz for the Loop One Festival, Vanessa Voigt absent
- Great Britain with Shawna Pendry and Matthew Chronicle at the Loop One Festival in Munich
- “They’re going there to give it their all”: Karl Tabouret and Benjamin Daviet at the start of the Loop One Festival in Munich on 18 October
- Loop One Festival: Belgium with Maya Cloetens, Florent Claude, Lotte Lie and Thierry Langer
- Finland, led by Suvi Minkkinen, six for the Loop One Festival
