After 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 […]
Tagged week in reviewPreviously, I discussed the differences in race penalties between North America and Europe. Â Now we’ll continue with a really quick look at how race penalties have changed over time in North America. This will be really short and sweet, so here’s the graph: So clearly, this only goes back around 10 seasons (and doesn’t include […]
Tagged Analysis, fis points, race penaltyThere were only a handful of Americans (and no Canadians) who did the freestyle distance race in Beitostølen, Norway on Sunday, so we’ll cover them and Andrew Musgrave in one post. First a rough look at how each performance stacked up in terms of FIS points: By FIS points, that’s about as fast as Arritola […]
Tagged beitostølen, Distance, liz stephen, men, morgan arritola, percent back difference, recap, women