NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (AP)—Max Cobb, executive director of the U.S. Biathlon Association, has been named president and CEO of the US Biathlon Team.

Team chairman Larry Pugh said on Wednesday that the board wanted to acknowledge the contributions Cobb has made to the sport over the last 20 years.

Cobb joined the USBA in 1989 as the head of the domestic race series, and a year later was named assistant coach and manager of the national team. He was promoted to program director in 1994 and to executive director in 2006.

A World Anti-Doping Agency report on the 2010 Olympics doping control program has recommended the International Olympic Committee make changes in the way athletes are identified for in-competition testing at future Games.

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MOSCOW (AP)—Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Medvedtseva of Russia, whose career was marred by a doping violation that led to her being kicked out of the Turin Games, is retiring from the sport.

Medvedtseva made the announcement after Sunday’s mixed relay race at the World Cup finals in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, but said her mind has been made up for some time.

KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia (AP)—Germany ended the biathlon season by winning the mixed relay world championship title Sunday in the final event on the World Cup calendar.

The German team of veteran Simone Hauswald, double Olympic gold medalist Magdalena Neuner, Simon Schempp and Arnd Peiffer finished the race in 1 hour, 19 minutes, 59.5 seconds. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen anchored Norway to the silver medal, finishing 1 minute, 24.0 seconds behind.

Sweden came in third, 1:30.8 back.

WHISTLER '€” Italy clinched gold Sunday as Francesca Porcellato beat the Ukraine's Olena Iurkovska across the finish line in the women's one-kilometre sprint.

WHISTLER '€” Japan's Nitto Yohihiro grabbed the gold Sunday in the men's one-kilometre standing race, leaving the silver for Russia's Kirill Mikhaylov and the bronze for Ilkka Tuomisto, of Finland.

WHISTLER '€” Canada's Brian McKeever clinched a golden hat trick Sunday, after taking a gamble and using skate skis in the one-kilometre classic Nordic sprint at Whistler Paralympic Park.

VANCOUVER '€” The Swedish wheelchair curling team at the 2010 Paralympics has been rocked with news the player who was to throw their final rocks, Glenn Ikonen, has been hit with a two-year suspension by the International Paralympic Committee for the use of an illegal drug.