The USST has just officially announced the team for next season, although we already knew quite a bit based on what several of the athletes have been saying. Probably the biggest news is that Kris Freeman is no longer on the team at all. Not bumped down to the B-Team. Removed entirely, although apparently also […]
Also tagged us ski teamKris Freeman and Kikkan Randall have been basically the top US skiers for quite some time now. (I’m sort of brushing Andrew Newell under the rug here, mostly just due to time contraints. I’ll do a follow up on him next week.) Freeman has been more or less unquestionably the best US male distance skier […]
Also tagged Distance, domestic, holly brooks, ida sargent, jessie diggins, kikkan randall, lars flora, liz stephen, noah hoffman, sadie bjornsen, Sprint, sylvan ellefson, tad elliott, USAAs with most stage races these days, the Tour de Ski included some handicap start pursuits. Generally, the athletes will start in a staggered fashion based upon their time back in the overall standings, and the first person to the finish line wins the stage. This creates some very unusual incentives for the athletes, depending […]
Also tagged handicap, liz stephen, pursuit, tour de ski, World CupNorth Americans Each weekend seems to be an interesting mix of results for the North Americans. Starting with the women (Davos result circled in blue): Compared to this season, that was an off day for Kikkan, but compared to last season that was pretty typical. Part of me wonders if she dialed it back a […]
Also tagged Davos, holly brooks, ivan babikov, kikkan randall, liz stephen, noah hoffman, recap, sadie bjornsen, sprint distance, tad elliott, World CupMissed Medals A reader asked on Twitter the other day if I’d recalculate the tallies for Kris Freeman’s top ten, top three, etc. results if we went back and removed a certain Estonian skier from prior results sheets. I’m going to preface this with some standard caveats about how I can’t know for sure when […]
Also tagged andrus veerpalu, doping, early season, maurice manificatAnother season is just around the corner! While the USST saw some changes over the off season, the folks we are most likely to see top results from are still the Big Three: Kikkan Randall, Andy Newell and Kris Freeman. My expectations and questions for Freeman are summed up in this graph: This shows his […]
Also tagged andrew newell, kikkan randall, season preview, usstContinuing on in our over-analysis of the recent New Zealand FIS races, we turn to the sprints. It’s much harder to do anything sensible with these races (even given that I’ve over-analyzing things!) since the fields are so small even the difference in placing between specific skiers is potentially misleading. However, just for fun let’s […]
Also tagged continental cup, len valjas, new zealand, Sprint