This past weekend was chock full of racing in Finland, Norway and Sweden. Â There’s way too much for me to analyze, even looking at just the North Americans, so I’m going to focus in on just a few performances that I found particularly interesting. Â Even so, this post will be quite long. Results ranged from […]
Tagged alex harvey, canada, daria gaiazova, devon kershaw, ida sargent, kikkan randall, kris freeman, recap, usstAnd we’re off…! Â The first really big weekend of racing is underway, and there’s already some good signs for the US, with Kikkan Randall winning the freestyle sprint in Muonio and Ida Sargent finishing a strong 11th. Â The weekend continues with more distance races in Muonio (FIN), Beitostoelen (NOR) and Bruksvallarna (SWE). Â World Cup action […]
Tagged week in reviewSkiTrax and FIS are holding a fantasy World Cup contest, roughly modeled after the very popular fantasy baseball or fantasy football competitions that we all know and love. Â Basically, you pick four men and four women (plus a “bonus” man and woman, from outside the top 15 rankings from last year), and then your “team” […]
Tagged contest, fantasy skiing, fis, skitrax, World CupKris Freeman is simply the best distance skier in the US at the moment, male or female. Â In fact, he probably has been for at least the past 4 years or so. Unfortunately, that means he’s under a lot of pressure to produce quality results, medals in particular. Â That’s not terribly fair, in a cosmic […]
Tagged kris freeman, season preview, usstThis is part four in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season. Â I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]
Tagged andrew newell, season preview, Sprint, usstI was listening to FasterSkier’s podcast the other day and was a bit startled to here one of the participants mention me by name![1. By the way, Christopher, it’s pronounced JOR-an; like “Jordan” but with no “d”. Â My parents gave me the Scandinavian name, but not the Scandinavian pronunciation. Â And shame on you, Colin, for […]
Tagged churn, fasterskier, SprintThis is part three in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season. Â I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]
Tagged kikkan randall, season preview, usst