These previews will be very general and quick, basically just charting the overall performance of the major nations in championship events (Olympics and World Championships) over time. We’ll start with the men’s distance events: The measurement here is “results per race”, so for instance the Norwegian men averaged 1 Gold medal per race in the […]
Tagged 2011, Distance, men, preview, women, WSCI’m not going to spend much time on this topic, since obviously it wasn’t a great day for the North Americans, but we can at least put a few of the results in some sort of context using my new-fangled graph, starting with some of the men: I’m sticking with the folks who’ve done more […]
Tagged canada, classic, Distance, drammen, men, north americans, USA, women, World CupAfter reviewing yesterday’s sprint race in Drammen, Norway it’s time to get caught up on the distance racing action from the day before. And lucky for you I’m going to use some new graphs that I’ve been working on for a while. They’re similar to the biathlon graphs I introduced last week, with a few […]
Tagged classic, daniel rickardsson, Distance, drammen, marit bjoergen, men, recap, women, World CupI’ve got the sprint heat times in hand again, thanks to Jan at WorldOfXC.com, so let’s look at how things played out. Starting with the men: I’ve omitted a handful of times from this graph that were unusually slow, which typically happens due to a crash, broken pole or some other mishap. As usual with […]
Tagged drammen, freestyle, kikkan randall, recap, Sprint, women, World CupI’d say someone has this freestyle sprinting thing dialed in pretty well, wouldn’t you? And what a race from Alex Harvey, much better sprint race for him. I have the heat times again, so an analysis of those will be in the works for tomorrow…
Tagged alex harvey, drammen, freestyle, kikkan randall, men, race snapshot, Sprint, womenNot such a hot day for the North Americans, sadly. Hopefully they’ll rebound for World Championships. A hearty congrats to Daniel Rickardsson and Marit Björgen, although some might say that they are now very unlikely to win a gold medal at World Champs. Oh well!
Tagged classic, Distance, drammen, men, norway, race snapshot, women, World CupThanks once again to Skaði Nordic for bringing you this week’s Week In Review: We started off with the last of the IBU World Cup races in Maine, including the pursuits and mass starts. I’m debuted some new-fangled biathlon results plots for race snapshots and for looking at individual skiers. The individual plots are something […]
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