Sprint Recap Thanks again to Jan over at WorldOfXC.com (and FIS’s ability to not wreck them, although they tried!) we have the sprint heat times from Saturday. Starting with the women’s semifinals: Semifinal 1 was markedly faster, no? It doesn’t appear that Kikkan suffered for it, but then the Düsseldorf course is unusually short for […]
Also tagged dusseldorf, kikkan randall, race recap, Sprint, women, World CupAlso tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, women, World Cup
Nice start for Lowell Bailey, Jean Phillippe Leguellec and Jay Hakkinen….Go North America!
Also tagged biathlon, Distance, race snapshot, World CupContinuing on from last time, we take a look at male long distance specialists. Recall I’m being all “fancy” here and using a fairly sophisticated modeling technique to identify skiers who tended to have better major international results at longer distances. If you’re familiar with any statistics, you can think of it as an extension […]
Also tagged Distance, World CupI can’t keep up on the enormous number of good young skiers from every nation. I have a hard enough time with just those in my own backyard, the US and Canada. So it’s fun to look at some folks from other countries that I’m not so familiar with. For instance, here are some graphs […]
Also tagged cohort, development, finlandA quick follow up to my previous post on the same topic for women. Swap Germany for Russia, and otherwise the answer is largely unchanged: Once again, this is the number of skiers born since 1988 who’s best FIS points results last season averaged better than 50 FIS points. I used a more strict cutoff […]
Also tagged development, norway, russia