More World Cup action from my home state! Technically, I’m more from Southern Maine, and there really is a distinction, but no matter. Looks like Scott Perras had an excellent race for the Canadians! Lowell Bailey had a good, but maybe not great day.
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupA bit delayed, since I spent a goodly portion of Saturday running, and most of the entire weekend without internet. With the small fields it can be a little tough to interpret results from these events, to be sure. Particularly when the distance race was a pursuit, which often lead to artificially low FIS points […]
Also tagged Distance, pursuit, recap, rybinsk, women, World CupI care about the Rybinsk races, even if lots of other people don’t. Not surprisingly, a Russian guy won the men’s race, but I’m not sure it was the Russian most people were expecting. Also, exercise some caution with the FIS points; it appeared to be a very tactical race so everyone is pretty close […]
Also tagged pursuit, race snapshot, russia, rybinsk, women, World CupAs always, heat time data supplied by WorldOfXC.com. Beginning with the men: Ola Vigen Hattestad went progressively slower as the day wore on, though often there are tactical reasons for that depending on the speed of your heat. And of course, he ended up second. There is also the issue of skiers switching between classic […]
Also tagged classic, jesper modin, otepaa, recap, Sprint, women, World CupTough day for Lars Berger, it seems. But another strong race for Lowell Bailey. Looks like shooting was a bit dodgy today.
Also tagged biathlon, mass start, race snapshot, World Cup