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Most Surprising Olympic Medalists

Sometimes people you don’t expect race very fast. A reader asked me to look into this general topic, this will be the distance race installment. I’ll do a sprint version in a few days. I’m going to focus here on people who have won Olympic medals in distance events. To measure how “unexpected” it was, […]

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Race Snapshot: TdS Final Climb

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Race Snapshot: TdS 5/10k Classic

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Race Snapshot: TdS 15/35k Pursuit

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Race Snapshot: TdS Classic 10/15k Mass Start

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Race Snapshot: TdS Freestyle Sprint

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Optimal Norwegian Women’s Relay Team

Now that I have some nifty code for analyzing the optimal relay team given a set of skiers to choose from, I thought I’d have some fun by looking at the Norwegian women. Now, clearly on some level it almost doesn’t matter which folks you put on this team in addition to Bjorgen and Johaug. […]

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