My eyes are a bit bleary from grading all day, otherwise I’d try to watch some of the WJC/U23 racing action that appears to be available online. As it is, here’s what’s been cooking here over the last week: Wrapping up a weekend of racing on both WC circuits before they take this one off: […]
Tagged week in reviewI’ve been swamped with grading this week, so I feel a little bad about not posting anything about World Juniors specifically. I’ll try to put something together over the weekend. But these percent back difference plots are pretty easy to pump out for the U23s, since they tend to have a bit more racing behind […]
Tagged andrew musgrave, Distance, freestyle, kevin sandau, noah hoffman, percent back, U23I’ve mentioned this from time to time in other posts, but one thing I’ve noticed from the sprint heat times that Jan at WorldOfXC.com has been providing me is that the women’s heats are more likely to increase in speed as the day progresses. I’ve said it enough that I should probably provide some evidence: […]
Tagged heats, pacing, Sprint, trends, World CupToday’s U23 races in Estonia resulted in victories for some talented young skiers, Russia’s Evgeniy Belov and Finland’s Krista Lahteenmaki. In both cases their wins were fairly convincing, with Belov distancing himself from second place by 16 seconds and Lahteemaki crushed the women’s field by a full minute. One of the difficulties in gauging performance […]
Tagged Distance, evgeniy belov, freestyle, krista lahteenmaki, percent back, U23It’s always nice to see my countrymen (and women) skiing fast, so it’s been fun to see Lowell Bailey and Laura Spector posting some good results on the IBU World Cup scene over the past several weeks. Let’s just check in and see how these results compare to their past: These are only “major” races […]
Tagged accuracy, biathlon, laura spector, lowell bailey, shooting, World CupUpdate: In light of recent events (as of Apr 2011) a lot of people have been visiting this post, so I thought I’d point out that I’ve updated it with a slightly more focused look at Veerpalu’s record here. To mark last weekend’s World Cup races in Estonia, I thought a post on Andrus Veerpalu […]
Tagged andrus veerpalu, clutch, Distance, oxana jatskayaAs always, heat time data supplied by WorldOfXC.com. Beginning with the men: Ola Vigen Hattestad went progressively slower as the day wore on, though often there are tactical reasons for that depending on the speed of your heat. And of course, he ended up second. There is also the issue of skiers switching between classic […]
Tagged classic, jesper modin, men, otepaa, recap, Sprint, women, World Cup