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Race Snapshot: IBU WC 8 Men/Women’s Pursuit

What a crazy story for Lowell Bailey today! Too bad, hopefully he can channel the frustration into skiing fast next time around.

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2011 02 12 Uncategorized Comments (1)

Week In Review: Friday Feb 11th

Another down week with World Cup action on the cross-country side of things, but Drammen and World Champs are just around the corner. Last weekend saw the return of the Rybinsk World Cups, a pursuit and a sprint. We also had the first weekend of biathlon World Cups over here in the US with some […]

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2011 02 11 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: IBU WC 8 Women’s Sprint

It’d be nice if we could get Sara Studebaker and Laura Spector skiing fast (and shooting well) at the same time. But maybe I’m just being picky.

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2011 02 11 Uncategorized Comments (1)

Let’s Count To Five, Shall We?

I’m a stats guy.  I love numbers and data and graphs.  I will happily admit that this tends to make me, shall we say, particular about all things quantitative.  Some people may call it being anal; I prefer to think of it as being correct. Which is why I need to take a moment to […]

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2011 02 11 Uncategorized Comments (1)

Nation Trends: ITA, FIN, GER

Now for the sprinting versions of the graphs from my previous post. First up the men: These graphs stretch back into the prehistory of sprinting, so keep that min mind. The Italian men kind of came out of the barn dominating sprinting (or whatever you want to call the “sprinting” events that existed back in […]

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2011 02 10 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: IBU WC 8 Men’s Sprint

More World Cup action from my home state! Technically, I’m more from Southern Maine, and there really is a distinction, but no matter. Looks like Scott Perras had an excellent race for the Canadians! Lowell Bailey had a good, but maybe not great day.

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2011 02 10 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Performance Trends: ITA, FIN, GER

I made a graph a while back for a post dealing with the concern in Norway about their men’s distance squad, and in a follow-up post I provided a version of the same graph for the Swedish and Russian men’s distance teams as well. I’ve decided that I kind of like this graph; it’s a […]

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