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Race Snapshot: Davos Freestyle Sprints

I could get used to this whole Kikkan winning thing…

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Race Snapshot: Davos 15/30km Freestyle

Interesting day. I may have to switch to using percent behind the median skier for these, though, if people keep winning these things by such large margins.

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Hoffman & Stephen In Seefeld

Christian Hoffmann Christopher Tassava chimed in with another request, regarding the news this week about Christian Hoffman’s 6 year suspension. Since I did post looking at who stood to gain if you removed Andrus Veerpalu from past results, he wanted to know what it would look like if we did the same thing with Christian […]

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Men’s Biathlon & Chandra Crawford

Men’s Biathlon The US men’s biathlon team had an auspicious start to the season. Lowell Bailey in particular skied some of the best races of his life. Let’s focus on the following three North Americans (click for larger version): Obviously, the shooting statistics for this season are based on only this past weekend’s racing, so […]

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Düsseldorf Roundup

Sprint Recap Thanks again to Jan over at WorldOfXC.com (and FIS’s ability to not wreck them, although they tried!) we have the sprint heat times from Saturday. Starting with the women’s semifinals: Semifinal 1 was markedly faster, no? It doesn’t appear that Kikkan suffered for it, but then the Düsseldorf course is unusually short for […]

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Race Snapshot: Düsseldorf Sprints

Go Kikkan!

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Vibeke Skofterud’s Early Season Strengths

Podcast Shenanigans So I tune into the FasterSkier podcast tonight during my run, only to hear that I’m apparently the lead topic, by way of Kikkan Randall’s strong classic sprint (and distance) results in Kuusamo. Fair enough. As fun as it would be to turn this into a full on blog war, I actually think […]

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