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Race Snapshot: IBU WC 7 Men/Women’s Sprint

Strong race for Sara Studebaker today and some good races from Lowell Bailey and Jay Hakkinen as well.

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2011 02 04 Joran Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: Rybinsk 10/20km Pursuit

I care about the Rybinsk races, even if lots of other people don’t. Not surprisingly, a Russian guy won the men’s race, but I’m not sure it was the Russian most people were expecting. Also, exercise some caution with the FIS points; it appeared to be a very tactical race so everyone is pretty close […]

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2011 02 04 Joran Comments (1)

Rybinsk: Does Anyone Care?

I don’t mean any disrespect by the title, there, it’s just that the Rybinsk World Cups haven’t been very well attended. I was told by a friend recently that the Canadians included as part of their WSC selection criteria the standard of “finishing in the top 20 and the top half of a World Cup […]

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2011 02 04 Joran Comments (2)

WJC/U23 Assessment: Finland, Germany and Sweden

Ok, this will be my last post on WJC/U23s, I promise! As we did before with the US and Canada, and then Norway and Russia, these graphs are simply displaying each WJC or U23 result for each nation (in finishing place, not FIS points) with the median tracked in red. As usual, I’ll keep my […]

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2011 02 03 Joran Comments (1)

WJC/U23 Assessment: Norway and Russia

Continuing on in the vein of my post yesterday recapping the WJC and U23 results for the last several years for the US and Canada, this post will do the same for Norway and Russia. As before, I’m plotting the finishing rank, or place, of each skier and then tracking the median result in red. […]

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2011 02 02 Joran Comments (1)

Animated WJC Results History

I had fun making those animated charts for World Cup points the other day, so I thought I’d try using the same charts to look at World Juniors. All I’ve done is tally up “World Cup” points for each nation and each year, scoring each (individual) race using the traditional WC point scale. Then I […]

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2011 02 02 Joran Comments (0)

WJC/U23 Assessment USA and CAN

This week is going to be pretty heavy on the WJC/U23 graphs, I suppose, as we wait for the World Cup racing to start up again. One of the things that has struck me while writing this blog is how much importance and meaning is placed on WJC/U23s compared with how little data they provide […]

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2011 02 01 Joran Comments (2)