Continuing on with some notes about the World Cup opener in Gällivare last weekend. It’s always the case in a season opener that much will be made of a handful of people who had unexpectedly good or bad races. Usually, this is an overreaction. But let’s play that game anyway and look at two skiers […]
Also tagged canada, field depth, gallivare, justyna kowalczyk, USA, women, World CupFirst of all, I’ll echo Nat Herz’s big ups to Andrew Musgrave for finishing second at Norwegian Nationals the other day. I’ve always been a bit fascinated by Musgrave, probably because North Americans identify with any reasonably successful, promising skier not from Scandinavia or the usual European nations as fellow “outsiders”. So I’m always kind […]
Also tagged Distance, men, norway, norwegian nationalsA number of Americans and Canadians participated in some big FIS races in Beitostølen, Norway this past weekend. Not all the results have migrated over to the FIS site yet, so I’m just going to focus on the classic distance races from Saturday. We should keep in mind throughout that, from what I’ve read, many […]
Also tagged beitostølen, Distance, fis points, ivan babikov, men, recap, simi hamiltonAs before, with the U23 racers we typically have more data to work with, since these folks have generally been around longer and so are likely to have raced against each other more often. We’ll continue using the percent back difference plots, that examine how a particular skier has fared against each of their competitors […]
Also tagged alex harvey, noah hoffman, percent back difference, pursuit, U23I’ve been swamped with grading this week, so I feel a little bad about not posting anything about World Juniors specifically. I’ll try to put something together over the weekend. But these percent back difference plots are pretty easy to pump out for the U23s, since they tend to have a bit more racing behind […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, kevin sandau, noah hoffman, percent back, U23As I was perusing some of the other assorted race results from last weekend, the FIS races in Norway caught my eye. Â Of course, most of the press went to Petter Northug, with his victory in Saturday’s 30km skate race, presumably indicating that his fitness is returning. A little further down the results sheet, but […]
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