This first batch of races for 2013-2014 are in from Muonio, Finland. As always, it’s difficult to read much into a single race, particularly early season races like these. You never quite know who’s still in the midst of a big training block and how seriously people are approaching them. Still, I thought it was […]
Tagged Analysis, muonio, petr sedovFirst some quick seeds calculated for Oslo’s freestyle mass start races: [table id=87 /] Finally, a commenter on my last post asked about how often Kikkan and Marit had actually met in a sprint final. The answer is that it has happened (in major events) nine times, and Kikkan has won 3 of them, include […]
Tagged head to head, kikkan randall, marit bjoergen, oslo, seed, Sprint, World CupYou’ll recall that recently this rivalry has been fairly one sided, no matter how much Justyna’s fans want to believe otherwise. The previous two season simply saw Marit winning far more of their head to head match-ups. At the start of the season, things looked even worse for the Justyna camp, as she struggled quite […]
Tagged Distance, head to head, justyna kowalczyk, marit bjoergen, SprintI haven’t done one of these in a while, so just for fun… This time let’s compare two great female skiers from the 90’s (and early 00’s), Norwegian Bente Skari and Italian Stefania Belmondo. Â Unlike with Daehlie and Alsgaard, things are little more balanced for these two:
Tagged bente skari martinsen, head to head, stefania belmondoContinuing on in our over-analysis of the recent New Zealand FIS races, we turn to the sprints. It’s much harder to do anything sensible with these races (even given that I’ve over-analyzing things!) since the fields are so small even the difference in placing between specific skiers is potentially misleading. However, just for fun let’s […]
Tagged continental cup, kris freeman, len valjas, new zealand, SprintHey, the first international ski races of the 2011-2012 season took place recently in New Zealand! They are officially FIS sanctioned races, but my impression is that they have a bit more of a training camp time trial feel to them. The Americans, Canadians, some Russians, and then an assortment of Japanese, Korean, and locals […]
Tagged continental cup, Distance, justyna kowalczyk, new zealand, noah hoffmanI haven’t done one of these in a while, but with Mika Myllylae in the news recently I thought this might be fun… This head-to-head matchup might not be the first you’d think of to look at, but you end up with an interesting graph nonetheless. Â As always, I grabbed the 54 races where Myllylae […]
Tagged head to head, mika myllylae, thomas alsgaard