Once again, many thanks to Skaði Nordic for sponsoring this week’s Week In Review.  Here’s what been cooking: Race snapshots from racing since last Friday: the Davos classic WC, the men’s and women’s biathlon WC pursuit, the Davos WC sprint.  Finally, another biathlon race, this time the men’s and women’s distance events. Some recaps and […]
Tagged week in reviewHow embarrassing is it for our sport that no one seems to be able to reliably count the number of World Cup victories of our best athletes? Here’s the deal.  Marit Björgen has attracted some attention lately for the number of total WC victories to her name, which is generally thought to be at least […]
Tagged bente skari martinsen, bjoern daehlie, counting, fis, marit bjoergen, rant, records, victories, World CupThey aren’t what stat-heads like myself would choose to do “serious” stuff, but World Cup points are what makes the XC world go round. Â FIS provides a few tools for looking up athlete’s WC points here and here. Â They’re pretty decent, by their standards, allowing you to switch between Overall, Distance and Sprint points, filter […]
Tagged bar chart, visualization, World Cup, world cup pointsGreat day for Sara Studebaker in 21st! Â The results look a little shook up on the men’s side, as well as the women’s to some degree. Â Lowell Bailey had a decent result despite some dodgy shooting.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, World CupSo US coach Chris Grover mentioned to FasterSkier.com that he thought that when Kikkan Randall qualifies in the top ten that’s a really good sign that she has a good chance to make the finals. I did this once before with an interesting quote of his, and I feel kind of bad. Â I’m not trying […]
Tagged andrew newell, chris grover, kikkan randall, quotes, SprintOne of the interesting things we can look at with sprint races is differences between the various heats themselves, rather than individual skiers. Â Interestingly, reconstructing this information, namely who was in what quarterfinal or semifinal, using just the split times took a little bit of thought. Â Not a monumental challenge, but it was a bit […]
Tagged bump chart, Davos, heats, splits, Sprint, World CupOnce again thanks to Jan at WorldofXC.com for providing the split time data for the sprint races on Sunday. Â Very different developments of heat times in this race compared to the last two sprint races. Â Let’s check out the women first: Note that these are just the raw times from the heats, so it does […]
Tagged bump chart, Davos, recap, splits, Sprint, World Cup