Annsi Pentsinen Doogiski over at NordicXplained asked how Pentsinen’s 4.3 second win in qualification on Friday stacks up historically. Quite impressively, it turns out. That’s the second largest qualifying round winning margin for the men’s field in WC, OWG or WSC races. The only larger one was almost 10 years ago, with a 4.7 second […]
Also tagged Distance, eldar roenning, johan olsson, kuusamo, marit bjoergen, race recap, roland clara, Sprint, stage, World CupI’m continuing to pick and choose which nations in Fasterskier’s countdown to write about. The US and Canada I’ll cover later in more detail, and I’m written about Japan a fair bit in the past. A couple of comments in their write up about Kazahkstan stuck out to me. The first was the comment about […]
Also tagged anastasia slonova, kazahkstan, season preview, World CupI’ll have a separate post covering some of the North Americans tomorrow. Â As usual, the choice of athletes to focus on is whatever strikes my fancy. Â If you have suggestions/requests after each race, let me know in the comments of the race snapshot posts. The first thing I want to note about Saturday’s distance races […]
Also tagged classic, Davos, Distance, krista lahteenmaki, masako ishida, recap, World Cup