Earlier this week I tweeted a little nugget I stumbled across: that Jessie Diggins now owns around half of all top 30 results for US skiers 21 years old or younger over the past two decades. In contrast, the most any single Norwegian contributes over the same time period is around 10% of all their […]
Tagged Age, Analysis, jessie digginsI received an email recently from a reader who pointed out to me that Marit Bjørgen completed the 30k classic mass start in Oslo this season in 1:26:09.8, last year at World Championships Therese Johaug did the same course, mass start, skating in only 1:23:45.1, which is only a difference of about 2.8%. Surely, skating […]
Tagged Analysis, men, technique, women, World CupSylvan Ellefson’s result from today is omitted in order to keep the plot visible. (I hope he’s ok.)
Tagged Distance, freestyle, men, prologue, race snapshot, sweden, women, World Cup, world cup finalSince I was pondering Marcus Hellner’s season just the other day, I thought I’d take a closer look at how his result tend to shift over the course of a season. He has struggled during the later parts of this season, but has that been true before in general? Here are his results in distance […]
Tagged marcus hellner, men, season trend, sweden, World Cup