With the first period of WC racing in the books and the next one just around the corner, I’m going to look back at the results of the North American skiers so far this season. Â The theme of this post is context and expectations. One of the reasons that I started this blog was that […]
Also tagged canada, median, men, midseason, percent back, review, USA, womenMy post on the differing performance of Japanese skiers by technique (classic vs. freestyle) got a lot of positive responses and a few requests that I use the same methods on some other countries. Â First up is Italy. I’ve tweaked and refined my model a fair bit, hopefully for the better. Â The basic idea is […]
Also tagged Analysis, italy, men, Sprint, technical, technique preference, womenJust as I did yesterday, let’s take a closer look at the results form Saturday’s World Cup mass start race in La Clusaz, France, this time focusing on the North Americans. Â As I discussed yesterday, we’re going to use percent-back difference plots from mass start or pursuit races to evaluate each skier’s race, since the […]
Also tagged freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, recap, USA, women, World CupPicking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday. Â Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last […]
Also tagged freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, World CupSaturday was the first long mass start race of the World Cup season in La Clusaz, France, and along with mass start races come difficulties in measuring performance in a sensible manner. Â The women’s field didn’t help matters by having the top three ski away from the field. So you end up with some odd […]
Also tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, women, World CupI think there were high hopes for Kris Freeman in today’s 30km, particularly after yesterdays monster article in FasterSkier, but I still suspect he’s likely to do better in 15km events. Â Still, not a terrible race for him at all, and a good day all around for the North Americans. Â Once again, though, the women’s […]
Also tagged freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, race snapshot, World CupThis recap is going to be fairly short. Â I’m going to pass over Kris Freeman and Kikkan Randall, since neither had spectacular races but in neither case does it seem particularly significant to me. Â Freeman reportedly was recovering from a cold and still managed a decent, but unimpressive race. Â Randall had a legitimately bad race, […]
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