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Race Snapshot: WSC Women’s 30k

Wow, what a performance by Therese Johaug today! Of course, FIS points might be a tad misleading for many of the skiers as a result:

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2011 03 05 Joran Comments (3)

Week In Review: Friday Mar 4th

Cross country World Championships are almost done and biathlon World Championships are just starting. No rest for the weary! Thanks again to Skaði Nordic for sponsoring this edition of week in review. We’ve had plenty of good racing including the men’s and women’s pursuits, and the men’s and women’s classic individual race. I reviewed some […]

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2011 03 04 Joran Comments (0)

Best (Most Extreme) WC Performances

Yesterday’s post sparked a little bit of discussion about how to measure the “best” performances. That wasn’t what I really intended, I was just trying to give a sense for some of the most extreme performances, relative to the median skier. No matter what you do, events will conspire to put some “weird” races on […]

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2011 03 04 Joran Comments (1)

All Time Best Performances

As measured by standardized percent back from the median skier, anyway. I mentioned in my recap from the other day that Matti Heikkinen’s race was one of the best ever, in terms of how far he out-paced the field. I actually got the count slightly wrong, since I was counting visually on my computer screen, […]

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2011 03 03 Joran Comments (6)

WSC Men’s 15km Classic: North Americans

Once again nothing spectacular from the North Americans, but nothing truly horrible either. Here are the Americans: That’s a pretty average race for Freeman. His best efforts this season have been just above -2, which would likely have just put him in the top ten today, and I mean that literally: he would have been […]

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2011 03 02 Joran Comments (0)

WSC Men’s 15km Classic Recap

It’s days like this that I point to when people ask if I can use all my skiing data to predict race results. The simple truth is that nothing does a great job of predicting ski racing results beyond the level of common sense, because you get days like this on a fairly regular basis. […]

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2011 03 02 Joran Comments (2)

Does Lukas Bauer Ski Better Early In Major Events?

I noticed an interesting tidbit in a FasterSkier article the other day previewing today’s men’s 15km classic race. Towards the end, it mentioned that “Bauer also often does better in his first event in a major event.” Obviously, Bauer had a pretty bad race today, his first of the event, but that doesn’t mean he […]

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2011 03 01 Joran Comments (3)