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Race Snapshot: IBU WC 5 Men’s 20km

Fantastic day for Lowell Bailey!  Also a strong race from Canadian Brendan Green.

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2011 01 12 Joran Comments (0)

Tour de Ski Without The Bonus Seconds

A commenter asked what would happen if we removed the bonus seconds awarded during the distance events of the Tour de Ski.  If we add the bonuses back in we get the following results: [table id=75 /] [table id=76 /] While the actual top 12 have remained the same, the order has not.  The women […]

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2011 01 12 Joran Comments (6)

Tour de Ski Summary Statistics

These are mostly just for fun, although I suppose some lessons might be drawn from them as well.  First up is a graph showing how the field was reduced stage by stage in both 2010 and 2011: Overall there were fewer racers this year even from the start, which is interesting.  In both cases there […]

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2011 01 11 Joran Comments (5)

Tour de Ski Recap: Part 2

Continuing on from my previous post, let’s move on to look at how different nations fared compared to last year’s Tour (click through for full versions): The German men struggled, but mainly that shows up here as skiers dropping out rather than performing poorly.  In fact, the one German man who made it all the […]

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2011 01 10 Joran Comments (1)

Tour de Ski Recap: Part 1

Now that the entire Tour is in the books, here’s how it played out, at least the big picture: I have to say, good job to Fransesc Soulie (AND) and Callum Watson (AUS) for hanging in there, despite being way off the back.  Eight races in ten days is a tough feat, even for the […]

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2011 01 10 Joran Comments (7)

Race Snapshot: IBU WC 4 Mass Start

Honestly, I’m too tired to comment much on this race.  Enjoy the graphs while I get some posts together recapping the entire Tour de Ski for tomorrow…

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2011 01 09 Joran Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: TdS Final Climb

If there were a race on the WC circuit so unlike any other that meaningful comparisons to past performance are rendered moot, this would be it.  But, you know, the skiers get FIS points for this race, so we might as well see what we can see.  Due to the unusual nature of the race, […]

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2011 01 09 Joran Comments (3)