First some quick seeds calculated for Oslo’s freestyle mass start races: [table id=87 /] Finally, a commenter on my last post asked about how often Kikkan and Marit had actually met in a sprint final. The answer is that it has happened (in major events) nine times, and Kikkan has won 3 of them, include […]
Tagged head to head, kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, oslo, seed, Sprint, World CupSince Kikkan Randall locked up the Sprint World Cup title this weekend with a (narrow) win over Marit Bjoergen, I thought it might be instructive to review their head-to-head history in sprinting: The dashed line is the trend for freestyle races and the solid is classic. Dots in the red are victories for Kikkan […]
Tagged kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, Sprint, World CupMen’s Race Women’s race:
Tagged classic, lahti, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupSo the title probably gives this away, but bear with me. Consider a skier with the following distance results profile in major competitions: So by the end of the 2011-2012 season this guy has just turned 31. As you can see, he’s had quite a solid career. Things were good but fairly steady from 2004 […]
Tagged Distance, johan olsson, World Cup, WSCIt’s remarked on in a few places that we might finally be seeing the effects of Kikkan Randall’s injury struggles over the summer. Another skier who had some strong early races and then has struggled as times during the season is Holly Brooks, so let’s look at their actual (WC, TDS and WSC) results from […]
Tagged holly brooks, kikkan randall, World Cup