After some thought, I feel compelled to expand a bit on my post regarding the US National Ranking List (NRL). Actually, my thoughts on the subject apply to points lists and athlete ranking in XC skiing more generally. Ranking athletes via some numerical system can be both fun and necessary. It’s fun for skiing fans […]
Tagged commentary, editorial, NRL, points, ranking listMore strong racing from Lowell Bailey and Sara Studebaker.
Tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, USA, World CupBetter late than never, I suppose. As you might expect from the Rybinsk events, a lot of people ended up doing better than they usually do. The few exceptions seemed to be John Kristian Dahl, Natalia Korosteleva and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, although I’m not sure how close to top form Saarinen is at the moment.
Tagged freestyle, race snapshot, rybinsk, Sprint, World CupSo, our Inn’s Internet is giving me nothing but 105 Errors, and there doesn’t seem to be much anyone can do about it. Hence, I’m reduced to alerting you of this using my phone via 3G. (Definitely regretting not jailbreaking my phone right now.) On the other hand, the Statistical Wife and I are pleasantly […]
I’m heading off to ‘The Islands” for a race tomorrow, but I should still be able to get the race snapshot graphs up, albeit a bit later in the day than usual. Thanks again to Skaði Nordic for bringing you this week’s Week In Review… I mucked around with Google’s Chart API just for fun […]
Tagged week in reviewStrong race for Sara Studebaker today and some good races from Lowell Bailey and Jay Hakkinen as well.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, 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 […]
Tagged men, pursuit, race snapshot, russia, rybinsk, women, World Cup