Continuing with my previews (gotta get them out before Saturday!), we’ll move on to the Canadian women, or at least two of them. As has been noted elsewhere, since the retirement of both Beckie Scott and more recently, Sara Renner, the Canadian women haven’t had as much success as the men. Â Let’s look at two […]
Also tagged chandra crawford, daria gaiazova, season previewI thought it only fair that I give our good neighbors to the north the same treatment as I did with the USST previews. Â These will be a bit shorter on the gab, though. Â We’ll start things off with Alex Harvey and Devon Kershaw. Both of these guys are probably more of a threat in […]
Also tagged alex harvey, devon kershaw, season previewThis past weekend was chock full of racing in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Â There’s way too much for me to analyze, even looking at just the North Americans, so I’m going to focus in on just a few performances that I found particularly interesting. Â Even so, this post will be quite long. Results ranged from […]
Also tagged alex harvey, daria gaiazova, devon kershaw, ida sargent, kikkan randall, kris freeman, recap, usstIn a short piece on FasterSkier the other day, I showed a graph that examined the FIS points vs. age trends of skiers broken down by their success at WJCs or U23s. Â In it, I highlighted only the American athletes, apart from the general trends for all skiers. I thought that I’d continue with a […]
Also tagged Age, development, U23, WJCAdam, over at NordicXplained, asks: “Everyone knows how well the Canadian men’s team did at the Olympics, but the question that I wanna know is how well they stacked up against other countries. Even though they didn’t win a medal, their average placing in many races surely could have been higher than traditional powerhouses like […]
Also tagged men, olympics