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 […]
Also tagged Distance, World Cup, WSCAnnsi 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 alexey poltaranin, Distance, eldar roenning, kuusamo, marit bjoergen, race recap, roland clara, Sprint, stage, World CupFinally, the World Cup season is under way. The individual 10/15km freestyle races this past weekend had some predictable performances (the Norwegian women) and some not so predictable performances (Swedish men). Men Let’s focus on just three of the men with notable performances on Saturday: Definitely strong races for each of these guys, but there […]
Also tagged alex harvey, calle halfvarsson, kikkan randall, liz stephen, margin of victory, race recap, sjusjoen, World Cup