Another cold, cold day in Östersund today, but a great one for Finland’s Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Germany’s Miriam Gössner.  Full version below the fold.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, women, World CupRace snapshot graphs from today’s men’s 20km distance race. Â Full version below the fold.
Tagged biathlon, men, race snapshot, World CupWho impressed me most in the races last weekend in Kuusamo? Â Well, I have to agree with one of my commenters in picking Germany’s Nicole Fessel. Â I’m not crazy enough to stay up till 1am to watch the races live on the internet, so I only have the results to go by. Â Still, how impressive […]
Tagged Distance, early season, most improved, nicole fessel, SprintI saw this survey a while back, but had forgotten about it. Â Now I see they’ve written up a little summary that has been published both on SkiTrax and FasterSkier. Â The actual survey can be found here. Why am I writing about this? Â Well, the summary includes some basic statistics. Â One of the things that […]
Tagged compartment syndrome, researchCan’t leave out the poor biathletes, now can we? Â Biathlon doesn’t have a point system like FIS points, so these will all be using raw percent back. Â If you’re familiar with these sorts of measures, you’ll notice that percent backs in biathlon are frequently quite a bit higher. For a variety of reasons, it’s harder […]
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, women, World CupNow let’s turn to the US women biathletes. Â The women haven’t managed to produce any results comparable to Tim Burke’s recent success, but there are a ton of young skiers it seems trying to change that. Â I’ve noticed a lot of collegiate cross country skiers switching over (or maybe back) to biathlon after graduated, and […]
Tagged biathlon, haley johnson, lanny barnes, laura spector, sara studebaker, season preview, usstMarit Bjørgen commented somewhere that her win at the WC opener in Gällivare, SWE was “the best skate race of her life”.  Sadly, I can’t find where I read that, otherwise I’d have a link for you.  Obviously, I found that kind of intriguing.  Let’s look at Bjørgen’s race in a bit more detail: This […]
Tagged freestyle, margin of victory, marit bjoergen