The Sochi Olympics are naturally going to be the focus this season, and all the attention during Olympics is on winning medals. So naturally, much of the conversation of the next six months or so is going revolve around “Who’s going to win a medal at Sochi?” Well, from one perspective, the answer is pretty […]
Tagged Analysis, men, owg, sochi, womenOne topic that’s going to come up over and over again over the next 10 months or so is to what degree Kikkan Randall may be the gold medal “favorite” for the freestyle sprint in Sochi. If you look over the past several seasons, the first thing you have to note is that two of […]
Tagged freestyle, ida ingemarsdotter, kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, SprintSorry for my recent absence. Never fear, I haven’t abandoned this project, but things may be a bit more sparse than usual over the summer. Feel free to drop me a line with question or ideas for posts, though, as that will be good motivation for me. In that vein, a reader asked me to […]
Kris Freeman obviously isn’t the only US Ski Team nomination to discuss, so let’s take look at a few other folks. Starting with a few people generally thought of a “sprinters”: These are the major international sprint results for these three skiers. Simi Hamilton was dropped down from the A to the B team. […]
Tagged Sprint, us ski team, World CupThe USST has just officially announced the team for next season, although we already knew quite a bit based on what several of the athletes have been saying. Probably the biggest news is that Kris Freeman is no longer on the team at all. Not bumped down to the B-Team. Removed entirely, although apparently also […]
Tagged kris freeman, us ski teamLast of the distance events, this time the women who stumbled the most this season compared to last: As always, I’m graphing only one of the several metrics that are blended together to select these skiers. In particular, note that Anna Haag doesn’t look like she belongs on this list. However, several of her […]
Tagged Distance, most unimproved, women, World CupThis is the group of men who had some of the biggest slides backwards this season, although as we’ll see it is sort of an odd collection. Unlike both of the previous most improved posts, this group of skiers seems to include some people who shouldn’t be here. Part of that is that I’m using […]
Tagged Distance, men, most unimproved, World Cup