So the title probably gives this away, but bear with me. Consider a skier with the following distance results profile in major competitions: So by the end of the 2011-2012 season this guy has just turned 31. As you can see, he’s had quite a solid career. Things were good but fairly steady from 2004 […]
Tagged Distance, johan olsson, World Cup, WSCYesterday’s men’s 15km freestyle interval start race featured one of the most split fields we’ve seen in that event in a long time. The top three, Northug, Olsson and Gjerdalen had modest gaps between them, but then there was just over 30 seconds back to 4th place. How big was this gap between the podium […]
Tagged Analysis, freestyle, interval start, men, trivia, WSCNice races from Ivan Babikov and Noah Hoffman:
Tagged Distance, freestyle, men, race snapshot, WSCJust the women’s race today, men tomorrow:
Tagged Distance, freestyle, race snapshot, women, WSCJust as with the previous seeding tables I’ve produced, here’s one for the upcoming WSC mass start. Again, this ignores issues of who might actually start the race (e.g. Astrid Jacobsen makes my list here) and some folks who may only have done a small number of races will be excluded. [table id=86 /] To […]
Tagged classic, Distance, mass start, men, seeding, women, WSC