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Olympics
The Caitlin Gregg Situation
Ah, yes, another Olympic year, another wildly entertaining FasterSkier comment thread regarding team selection. I find this round interesting because I sort of assumed that most of the heat this year would fall on the men’s selections, but apparently the decision to not select Caitlin Gregg is getting the bulk of the attention. This is […]
Tagged olympics, sochi, team selection, USA, womenUS Men’s Distance Olympic Selection
One of the hot topics this week in the US is who will be named to the Olympic team. There is particularly heavy speculation surrounding the men’s distance skiers, since that’s the most wide open (and the weakest). There are a lot of factors that go into a decision like this that I’m just going […]
Tagged Analysis, men, olympics, team selection, USAMost Surprising Olympic Medalists
Sometimes people you don’t expect race very fast. A reader asked me to look into this general topic, this will be the distance race installment. I’ll do a sprint version in a few days. I’m going to focus here on people who have won Olympic medals in distance events. To measure how “unexpected” it was, […]
Tagged Analysis, olympicsPre-Olympic Performance
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, womenIs Kikkan the Gold Medal Favorite?
One 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, Sprint