It sounds like Kowalczyk actually made it interesting this time around, although I have to say that while Bjørgen is impressive, this might actually get boring after a while. Or maybe Bjør-ing? Anyway, it’s nice to see Lahteenmaki get a strong result in at World Championships after having so many good races this season. And […]
Tagged 10k, classic, interval, race snapshot, women, WSCAfter some wild racing this weekend, let’s take a step back and look at some of the top and notable performances again more closely. Starting with the women, here’s a graph showing the top six finishers in Saturday’s 15km pursuit (click through for full version): People keep pestering me about making my graphs bigger; so […]
Tagged men, pursuit, recap, women, WSCWow, what a crazy race! If the mass start events trend toward this kind of stuff, with lots of attacking, I think that’ll only be a good thing for the sport. As it was, the all that action may have turned the results a bit inside out from what people were expecting. I’ll have a […]
Tagged men, pursuit, race snapshot, WSCOnce 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!
Tagged oslo, pursuit, race snapshot, women, WSCWith World Championships finally underway in Oslo, things are getting busy again. Here’s what’s been cooking this past week: We had the final World Cup races before WSCs in Drammen; so we had race snapshots for the distance and sprint races, and then the requisite recaps as well. I pulled together a few quick graphs […]
Tagged week in reviewJust a quick note (no graphs) with some historical perspective on the Swedish men’s performance in yesterday’s sprint race. It was somewhat of a surprise seeing Marcus Hellner win, and indeed the Swedes put three (Hellner, Jönsson and Modin) all in the top 5. As far as I can tell, the last time the Swedish […]
Tagged factoid, Sprint, stats, sweden, trivia, WSCThe day after the race may seem early to start doing serious evaluations, but I thought it would be interesting to take a look at different nations’ performances in championship sprint races over time, to put yesterday’s race in some context. I’ve taken the sprint results from Olympic and World Championship races since 2001 (which, […]
Tagged oslo, performance, recap, Sprint, trend, WSC