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Race Snapshot: IBU WC 6 Women’s Sprint

Another good day for Laura Spector! And Haley Johnson had a strong race as well, for her.

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2011 01 21 Uncategorized Comments (1)

WJC/U23 Preview: International (con’t)

As before, we can also look at how the results at WJCs and U23s for different nations match up with each athlete’s future performance in major international competitions. These graphs are constructed in the same manner. For each athlete in the graph I scored their future results in all OWG, WSC, WC or TDS races […]

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2011 01 21 Uncategorized Comments (3)

WJC/U23 Preview: International

Now it’s time to take a look at some of the bigger nations track records at World Junior Championships and U23s. The graphs will be very similar to the ones I used in my post looking at the USA and Canada. I’m only going to look at results for Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Germany. […]

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2011 01 21 Uncategorized Comments (1)

Race Snapshot: IBU WC 6 Men’s Sprint

Hmmm. I might have to write a post on Lowell Bailey next week.

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2011 01 20 Uncategorized Comments (0)

WJC/U23 Preview: USA and Canada (con’t)

Of course, these being competitions focusing on junior skiers, they often are used as a proxy for signaling future performance. I’ve looked at various aspects of this in the past, but there are always new ways to approach this. What I’ve done here is to take the plots from earlier today and add information regarding […]

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2011 01 20 Uncategorized Comments (1)

WJC/U23 Preview: USA and CAN

World Junior and U23 Championships are just around the corner! The posts today will focus on the US and Canadian teams, subsequent posts will look at some of the other top nations. WJCs and U23s are rolled into the same week of racing, although they split up the results by age group. U23s in particular […]

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2011 01 20 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Andrew Newell Sprint Qualification Redux

So there was this post a while back where I looked at the oft repeated CW that Andrew Newell tends to qualify rather fast and then slip back a bit in the heats.  My goal was just to see whether and to what degree this actually happens.  It turns out that my attempt to tackle […]

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2011 01 19 Uncategorized Comments (0)