Once again we have some potentially misleading FIS points, as Bjørgen, Kowalczyk and Johaug skied away from the field a bit. I’ll have a closer look at the results that adjust for this on Monday. It was mostly the usual suspects at the top, but what a race for Maria Rydqvist, though!
Also tagged oslo, race snapshot, women, WSCWhat a crazy story for Lowell Bailey today! Too bad, hopefully he can channel the frustration into skiing fast next time around.
Also tagged biathlon, lowell bailey, race snapshot, World CupA bit delayed, since I spent a goodly portion of Saturday running, and most of the entire weekend without internet. With the small fields it can be a little tough to interpret results from these events, to be sure. Particularly when the distance race was a pursuit, which often lead to artificially low FIS points […]
Also tagged Distance, men, recap, rybinsk, women, World CupMore strong racing from Lowell Bailey and Sara Studebaker.
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshot, USA, World CupI care about the Rybinsk races, even if lots of other people don’t. Not surprisingly, a Russian guy won the men’s race, but I’m not sure it was the Russian most people were expecting. Also, exercise some caution with the FIS points; it appeared to be a very tactical race so everyone is pretty close […]
Also tagged men, race snapshot, russia, rybinsk, women, World CupJust a quick follow up to my earlier post examining some of the North American men in today’s U23 pursuit, this time for the women. I’ll just focus on three ladies: Sadie Bjornsen, Caitlin Patterson and Alysson Marshall. Here’s the graph for Bjornsen: Today’s race (blue) seems neither much better nor much worse than she’s […]
Also tagged alysson marshal, caitlin patterson, percent back difference, sadie bjornsen, U23, womenAs before, with the U23 racers we typically have more data to work with, since these folks have generally been around longer and so are likely to have raced against each other more often. We’ll continue using the percent back difference plots, that examine how a particular skier has fared against each of their competitors […]
Also tagged alex harvey, andrew musgrave, noah hoffman, percent back difference, U23