Who impressed me most in the races last weekend in Kuusamo? Â Well, I have to agree with one of my commenters in picking Germany’s Nicole Fessel. Â I’m not crazy enough to stay up till 1am to watch the races live on the internet, so I only have the results to go by. Â Still, how impressive […]
Tagged Distance, early season, most improved, nicole fessel, SprintI saw this survey a while back, but had forgotten about it. Â Now I see they’ve written up a little summary that has been published both on SkiTrax and FasterSkier. Â The actual survey can be found here. Why am I writing about this? Â Well, the summary includes some basic statistics. Â One of the things that […]
Tagged compartment syndrome, researchCan’t leave out the poor biathletes, now can we? Â Biathlon doesn’t have a point system like FIS points, so these will all be using raw percent back. Â If you’re familiar with these sorts of measures, you’ll notice that percent backs in biathlon are frequently quite a bit higher. For a variety of reasons, it’s harder […]
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, women, World CupNow let’s turn to the US women biathletes. Â The women haven’t managed to produce any results comparable to Tim Burke’s recent success, but there are a ton of young skiers it seems trying to change that. Â I’ve noticed a lot of collegiate cross country skiers switching over (or maybe back) to biathlon after graduated, and […]
Tagged biathlon, haley johnson, lanny barnes, laura spector, sara studebaker, season preview, usst