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Race Snapshot: WBC Men’s 20k Individual

Awesome race from Leif Nordgren, and an ok one from Tim Burke.  The host country got a surprise performance it seems from Maxim Maksimov.

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2011 03 08 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

WBC Men’s Pursuit

Not much commentary on this one, just the graphs for the top skiers and the Americans. First the leaders: I don’t have much to add here except that Arnd Peiffer is having an excellent World Championships so far. As for the Americans: Nothing spectacular, I suppose, but not terrible.

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2011 03 08 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

WBC Women’s Sprint Recap

The women’s sprint race on Saturday didn’t see quite as many unusual faces at the top: Overall, Magdalena Neuner appears to have slipped a bit this season, but she put in an excellent performance on this day. Kaisa Mäkäräinen has really made a jump this year, both in her overall performance level and her shooting. […]

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2011 03 07 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

WBC Men’s Sprint Recap

That’s right, we’re taking my new biathlon plots out for a spin this week. The World Biathlon Championships kicked off the individual events on Saturday with the sprint. Here’s a look at the top men (click through for full version): The top panels are plotting the standardized percent back from the median skier (adjusted for […]

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2011 03 07 Joran Uncategorized Comments (2)

Race Snapshot: WBC Men/Women’s Pursuit

Some dramatic gaps between the leaders and the field today in both races.

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2011 03 06 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

New Biathlon Individual Graphs

Biathlon’s cool in part because there’s so much more data to play with. One seemingly minor thing I’ve been struggling with is how best to graph an athlete’s overall race results and their shooting statistics on the same graph. The obvious answer of just overlaying them and including a second y axis (since shooting accuracy […]

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2011 02 14 Joran Uncategorized Comments (3)

New Biathlon Race Snapshot Graphs

With the biathlon World Cups taking a turn through my childhood backyard these past few weekends, I’ve been spending more time trying to come up with some nice biathlon plots. Fairly early on with my race snapshot graphs I switched over with the cross country ones to show each athlete’s results compared to all their […]

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2011 02 14 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)