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Race Snapshot: Tour de Ski Classic Sprint

Sounded like a messy, crash filled sprint today. Exciting stuff!

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2011 12 31 Joran Race Snapshots
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Race Snapshot: Tour de Ski Pursuit

I sort of hesitate to post these, since as I expected this race format produces performance measures that are extreme outliers pretty much no matter what you do. Regular duathlon pursuits you can correct for somewhat, but these stage race two day affairs just always produce wacky looking results.

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2011 12 30 Joran Race Snapshots
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Liz Stephen’s Distance Preferences

I was skimming FasterSkier’s write-up of the Tour de Ski prologue yesterday and noted their comment about how Liz Stephen “… is generally stronger over longer distances, performing better in 10k’s than 5k’s and even better still in 15k’s.” That has been my informal impression as well, but I was suddenly skeptical about whether her actual […]

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2011 12 30 Joran Analysis Comments (0)

Race Snapshots: TdS Prologue

Count me among the folks who aren’t sold on the idea of prologues.

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2011 12 29 Joran Race Snapshots
Tour de Ski
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European Mid-Season Review

This will just be a short note with similar graphs as last time, only for a few of the major European nations. Men’s Distance Sweden continues to generally improve. Note that in terms of top thirty performances, Norway has steadily declined over the years, but not among the top ten or better level. So they’ve […]

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2011 12 28 Joran Analysis Comments (0)

North American Mid-Season Overview

During this lull before the Tour de Ski, I thought I’d show some graphs quickly summarizing how the US and Canada have fared thus far with some historical context. I think we all have a good sense of what’s going well (American women), what’s going not so well (American men) and what’s going OK (Canadian […]

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2011 12 26 Joran Analysis Comments (2)

How will Jessie Diggins fare on the World Cup?

The only sure way to know, of course, is to wait a few weeks and see what happens when she gets to Europe. But there’s been some commentary from the peanut gallery about how dominant Diggins has been on the domestic circuit so far. This is one of those problems that FIS points are supposed to […]

2011 12 23 Joran Analysis Comments (5)