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Race Snapshot: Liberec Freestyle Sprint

What can you say, except that today is a very good day?

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2011 01 15 Joran Comments (1)

Week In Review: Friday Jan 14th

Thanks once again to Skaði Nordic for sponsoring this week’s Week In Review. Let’s get right to it: Lots and lots of racing meant lots and lots of race snapshots: TdS mass start, TdS final climb, IBU World Cup women’s sprint and men’s mass start, IBU World Cup men’s individual and women’s individual and finally more […]

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2011 01 14 Joran Comments (1)

US World Champs Team Selection

Honestly, I’m reluctant to wade into this topic, but since this blog is supposed to focus on the intersection of XC skiing and data, I feel like I need to say something. The USST announced their team for World Championships in Oslo, which inevitably led to a certain amount of griping about the choices made […]

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2011 01 14 Joran Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: IBU WC 5 Men’s Sprint

Tough day for the North Americans, sadly.  Fantastic race by Lars Berger, though.

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2011 01 14 Joran Comments (0)

US Domestic Racing Update 2

Continuing on from yesterday as promised, we have two rather large graphs showing the head-to-head results of some top US skiers on the domestic scene.  These graphs are, well, big and to be honest I’m not particularly proud of them.  I’ve been struggling with how to display the head-to-head results from a large number of […]

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2011 01 14 Joran Comments (1)

Race Snapshot: IBU WC 5 Women’s 15km

Even Magdelena Neuner has bad days, apparently.

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2011 01 13 Joran Comments (2)

US Domestic Racing Update 1

I haven’t posted very much regarding domestic racing here in the US or Canada.  There are several reasons for this: Useful and meaningful performance measures are harder to come by.  FIS points start getting somewhat wishy-washy when you start having to assume that the penalty system is accurately capturing the strength of the field.  Not […]

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2011 01 13 Joran Comments (3)