One of the interesting things we can look at with sprint races is differences between the various heats themselves, rather than individual skiers. Â Interestingly, reconstructing this information, namely who was in what quarterfinal or semifinal, using just the split times took a little bit of thought. Â Not a monumental challenge, but it was a bit […]
Tagged bump chart, Davos, heats, splits, Sprint, World CupOnce again thanks to Jan at WorldofXC.com for providing the split time data for the sprint races on Sunday. Â Very different developments of heat times in this race compared to the last two sprint races. Â Let’s check out the women first: Note that these are just the raw times from the heats, so it does […]
Tagged bump chart, Davos, recap, splits, Sprint, World CupThis recap is going to be fairly short. Â I’m going to pass over Kris Freeman and Kikkan Randall, since neither had spectacular races but in neither case does it seem particularly significant to me. Â Freeman reportedly was recovering from a cold and still managed a decent, but unimpressive race. Â Randall had a legitimately bad race, […]
Tagged Davos, devon kershaw, Distance, george grey, ivan babikov, liz stephen, morgan arritola, recap, World CupIn my race recap for the Davos distance race I noted the strong performance of Masako Ishida, and pointed out what an extreme classic specialist she is. Â A certain world famous XC skiing journalist wanted to know if the conventional wisdom he’d heard was correct, that Japan’s skiers typically do better in classic skiing overall. […]
Tagged Analysis, classic, japan, R, technicalI’ll have a separate post covering some of the North Americans tomorrow. Â As usual, the choice of athletes to focus on is whatever strikes my fancy. Â If you have suggestions/requests after each race, let me know in the comments of the race snapshot posts. The first thing I want to note about Saturday’s distance races […]
Tagged alexey poltaranin, classic, Davos, Distance, krista lahteenmaki, masako ishida, recap, World CupSolid day for North America with 5 in the heats, and of course Kikkan’s second sprint podium of the season. Â Just watched the video of the women’s final and there’s no question Kowalczyk changed lanes when she wasn’t supposed to. Â Definitely hindered Randall, but I’m not sure she would have caught Follis.
Tagged Davos, men, race snapshot, Sprint, women, World CupHelena Ekholm, back on top; tough day on the range for the Americans (and Magdalena Neuner).
Tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, women, World Cup