Great day for North America, overall. Â Fantastic races by Kershaw and Harvey and strong efforts by Freeman and Randall (for a classic sprint, not her specialty, certainly not Freeman’s). Â Newell probably isn’t thrilled with his 12th place, given how much stumbling around it sounded like he did during the semis, but it’s not a terrible […]
Tagged classic, race snapshot, Sprint, tour de ski, World CupThese race snapshot graphs are quite a bit different from usual. Â First, today’s pursuit is essentially an old style two day pursuit with the techniques reversed (skating yesterday, classic today). Â So the stage results from today include yesterday’s time (minus the bonus seconds from yesterday). Â Hence, my race snapshot graphs won’t compare today’s stage to […]
Tagged race snapshot, tour de ski, World CupHappy (Almost) New Year! Â And thanks once again to Skadi Nordic for sponsoring this week in review. Â As the Tour de Ski get’s rolling, here’s what we’ve been up to this week: We looked a bit more closely at the link between qualifying in the top ten and going on to do well in the […]
Tagged week in reviewI debated whether these snapshot graphs would be sensible for the prologue (and also some other TdS stages as well) since the race formats during the Tour are a bit odd, so comparisons to the past are fairly tenuous. Â Also, I think the prologue event is kind of dumb, but that’s just my own bias. […]
Tagged race snapshot, tour de ski, World CupBack in September I wrote a post looking at the supposed woes of Norway’s male distance team. Â The bottom line was that, yes, by various measures things haven’t been looking as good lately for the Norwegian men’s distance squad. Â With the first period of racing completed, and more rumblings in Norway about their poor performance, […]
Tagged Distance, men, norway, podiums, russia, sweden, victories, World CupOk, so this isn’t much of a preview. Â Rather it’s just a bird’s eye view of what happened last year using some bumps plots. Â Here’s how things played out for the men: The median skier can sort of be thought of as the “peloton”. Â As you can see, not much happened until Stage 5, the […]
Tagged bump chart, tour de ski, World CupContinuing on from my last post on North American distance skiers, let’s jump right in with the sprinters, starting with the men: No fancy metrics here, just what place people finished in. Â Once again, red is this season, blue is last year’s Olympics. Â Alex Harvey’s sprint race in Kuusamo was unusually good for him. Â Simi […]
Tagged men, midseason, review, Sprint, women, World Cup