Just as I did yesterday, let’s take a closer look at the results form Saturday’s World Cup mass start race in La Clusaz, France, this time focusing on the North Americans. Â As I discussed yesterday, we’re going to use percent-back difference plots from mass start or pursuit races to evaluate each skier’s race, since the […]
Tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, recap, USA, women, World CupPicking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday. Â Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last […]
Tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, World CupSaturday was the first long mass start race of the World Cup season in La Clusaz, France, and along with mass start races come difficulties in measuring performance in a sensible manner. Â The women’s field didn’t help matters by having the top three ski away from the field. So you end up with some odd […]
Tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, women, World CupKind of a rough day for the Americans today in biathlon, but some solid Canadian results. Â Brendan Green and Scot Perras both had good races as well as Zina Kocher.
Tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupI think there were high hopes for Kris Freeman in today’s 30km, particularly after yesterdays monster article in FasterSkier, but I still suspect he’s likely to do better in 15km events. Â Still, not a terrible race for him at all, and a good day all around for the North Americans. Â Once again, though, the women’s […]
Tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, race snapshot, World CupOnce again, many thanks to Skaði Nordic for sponsoring this week’s Week In Review.  Here’s what been cooking: Race snapshots from racing since last Friday: the Davos classic WC, the men’s and women’s biathlon WC pursuit, the Davos WC sprint.  Finally, another biathlon race, this time the men’s and women’s distance events. Some recaps and […]
Tagged week in reviewHow embarrassing is it for our sport that no one seems to be able to reliably count the number of World Cup victories of our best athletes? Here’s the deal.  Marit Björgen has attracted some attention lately for the number of total WC victories to her name, which is generally thought to be at least […]
Tagged bente skari martinsen, bjoern daehlie, counting, fis, marit bjoergen, rant, records, victories, World Cup