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Race Snapshot: Otepää 15/10km Classic

Hey, look, a Norwegian guy won a distance race! And of course Marit Björgen wins again convincingly.

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Race Snapshot: TdS Classic Mass Start

As we would expect, a late in the Tour mass start race with a reduced field results in some unusual FIS points.  I’ve adjusted them, as before, using Equivalent Percent Back but ultimately races like todays are simply a different animal so we should be cautious about making comparisons.  Still, things shake out more as […]

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TdS Classic Sprint: North Americans

Just a few short notes focusing on the North Americans in the classic sprint yesterday.  First the men: One thing that stands out to me is that Harvey was actually skiing slightly faster than Kershaw all day.  Of course, the differences are very small (~1 second), but it highlights how large an impact the make-up […]

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TdS Classic Sprint Recap

Once again thanks to my data connection over at WorldofXC.com for the sprint splits data.  The overall picture for the women’s race is about what you’d expect: Petra Majdic basically crushed everyone in sight, and in fact the closest anyone really came to her was in qualification.  After a rough start to her season, this […]

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Race Snapshot: TdS Classic Sprint

Great day for North America, overall.  Fantastic races by Kershaw and Harvey and strong efforts by Freeman and Randall (for a classic sprint, not her specialty, certainly not Freeman’s).  Newell probably isn’t thrilled with his 12th place, given how much stumbling around it sounded like he did during the semis, but it’s not a terrible […]

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Do The Japanese Prefer Classic Skiing?

In my race recap for the Davos distance race I noted the strong performance of Masako Ishida, and pointed out what an extreme classic specialist she is.  A certain world famous XC skiing journalist wanted to know if the conventional wisdom he’d heard was correct, that Japan’s skiers typically do better in classic skiing overall. […]

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Davos Recap: Distance

I’ll have a separate post covering some of the North Americans tomorrow.  As usual, the choice of athletes to focus on is whatever strikes my fancy.  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 […]

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