Better 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 CupI don’t mean any disrespect by the title, there, it’s just that the Rybinsk World Cups haven’t been very well attended. I was told by a friend recently that the Canadians included as part of their WSC selection criteria the standard of “finishing in the top 20 and the top half of a World Cup […]
Tagged depth, field size, fis, preview, russia, rybinsk, World CupOk, this will be my last post on WJC/U23s, I promise! As we did before with the US and Canada, and then Norway and Russia, these graphs are simply displaying each WJC or U23 result for each nation (in finishing place, not FIS points) with the median tracked in red. As usual, I’ll keep my […]
Tagged assessment, finland, Germany, recap, sweden, U23, WJC/U23