Of course, these being competitions focusing on junior skiers, they often are used as a proxy for signaling future performance. I’ve looked at various aspects of this in the past, but there are always new ways to approach this. What I’ve done here is to take the plots from earlier today and add information regarding […]
Tagged development, Distance, junior, Sprint, WJC/U23, World CupWorld Junior and U23 Championships are just around the corner! The posts today will focus on the US and Canadian teams, subsequent posts will look at some of the other top nations. WJCs and U23s are rolled into the same week of racing, although they split up the results by age group. U23s in particular […]
Tagged can, canada, Distance, junior, preview, Sprint, USA, WJC/U23So there was this post a while back where I looked at the oft repeated CW that Andrew Newell tends to qualify rather fast and then slip back a bit in the heats. Â My goal was just to see whether and to what degree this actually happens. Â It turns out that my attempt to tackle […]
Tagged Analysis, andrew newell, heats, qualification, Sprint, technicalThe third in the series, looking at differences in performance in skating vs. classic races for particular nations. Â We’ve already done Japan and Italy. Â Now, by request, we have Norway. To avoid repeating myself, I’m going to skip much of the introduction and explanation for the methodology and graphs. Â Go read the Italy post if […]
Tagged Analysis, Distance, men, norway, Sprint, technical, technique preference, womenOnce again many thanks to Jan at WorldOfXC.com for providing the sprint split data. Clearly we need to begin with the women this week: For some reason the qualification round times seem a fair bit slower than many of the times from the rest of the day. I’ve noticed that the women’s heats do tend […]
Tagged freestyle, kikkan randall, liberec, ola vigen hattestad, recap, Sprint, World CupA pretty good day for Lowell Bailey and a decent race for Laura Spector. And of course more good racing from the Berger family.
Tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, World CupThey didn’t crack into the top thirty, but the Americans had strong races for them, nonetheless.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, women, World Cup