Archive for the 'Torino 2006' Category

Olympic Games review

Monday, February 27th, 2006

For the Athletes wearing X-Bionic Sportswear the Games were very successful. Some medals were added to the list in the last few days of Torino 2006. So, the final medal list for our Athletes totals to 27 Olympic medals:

Gold 9
Silver 8
Bronze 10

Again, congratulations to all the winners!

Michael Greis (GER)

More medals at Torino

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Sorry for the delay in updating. I have just returned from a trip to Moscow and Prague (more about that later).

A lot has happened in Torino - 4 Gold, 4 Silver, 4 Bronze for the athletes wearing X-Bionic SportsWear. Congratulations to all of you! This is the updated medal list:

Gold 8
Silver 6
Bronze 8

Medal List

Friday, February 17th, 2006

This week has brought more medals to the X-Bionic SportsWear medal list:

  • Sven Fischer (GER), Gold, Biathlon Men’s 10km Sprint
  • Florence Baverel-Robert (FRA), Gold, Biathlon Women’s 7.5km Sprint
  • Lilia Efremova (UKR), Bronze, Biathlon Women’s 7.5km Sprint
  • German Team, Silver, Nordic Combined
  • Martina Schild (SUI), Silver, Ladie’s Downhill

That makes for a total of:

Gold 4
Silver 2
Bronze 4

Congratulations to you all. Keep it up!

A complete list of all medals is online at the Torino 2006 web site.

Update: Bronze for Tobias Angerer (GER), Cross Country Men’s 15 km Classical .

First Olympic Gold Medals

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

The weekend has brought the first gold medals in Torino. X-Socks Ambassador Michael Greis (GER) won the very first event, the Men’s 20 km Biathlon on Saturday. Georg Hettich (GER) added another gold medal winning the Nordic Combined (Individual Gundersen).

Add to that a bronze medal for Bruno Kernen (SUI) in the Men’s Downhill and you get the X-Bionic SportsWear list of medals for the first two days:

Gold 2
Silver 0
Bronze 2

Congratulations to you three!

Update: X-Socks Ambassador Martina Glagow (GER) was third at the Women’s 15 km Individual Biathlon.

It’s Biathlon Season…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Our X-Socks Ambassador Martina Glagow (Germany) was successful again last weekend during the Anterselva Biathlon World-Cup (Italy) winning the 12,5 km women’s mass start race.

But it’s not like only the German team is using our products. These are the biathlon teams equipped with X-Socks and X-Bionic UnderGear:

  • Belgium
  • Bosnia-Hercegovina
  • Bulgary*
  • England
  • Estonia
  • France*
  • Germany*
  • Italy
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
  • Netherlands
  • Romania
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Switzerland*
  • Ukraine
  • White Russia

Teams marked with an * are not equipped with X-Bionic UnderGear.