This is just a quick update with some graphs of the North American’s heat times (data provided via Jan at WorldOfXC.com). I’ll have my usual sprint race recap up tomorrow. Obviously, it was a pretty disappointing day for the North Americans, since Kikkan Randall had some big expectations behind her. But sprint racing is risky, […]
Also tagged canada, freestyle, north american, Sprint, USA, WSCAfter reviewing yesterday’s sprint race in Drammen, Norway it’s time to get caught up on the distance racing action from the day before. And lucky for you I’m going to use some new graphs that I’ve been working on for a while. They’re similar to the biathlon graphs I introduced last week, with a few […]
Also tagged classic, daniel rickardsson, Distance, drammen, marit bjoergen, men, women, World CupI’ve got the sprint heat times in hand again, thanks to Jan at WorldOfXC.com, so let’s look at how things played out. Starting with the men: I’ve omitted a handful of times from this graph that were unusually slow, which typically happens due to a crash, broken pole or some other mishap. As usual with […]
Also tagged drammen, freestyle, kikkan randall, Sprint, women, World CupThere were only a handful of Americans (and no Canadians) who did the freestyle distance race in Beitostølen, Norway on Sunday, so we’ll cover them and Andrew Musgrave in one post. First a rough look at how each performance stacked up in terms of FIS points: By FIS points, that’s about as fast as Arritola […]
Also tagged beitostølen, Distance, liz stephen, men, morgan arritola, percent back difference, womenContinuing on from earlier today, we’ll turn to the North American women’s results from Saturday’s classic race in Beitostølen, Norway. As before, we’ll start with just a rough look at FIS points: Once again, I’ll repeat my caution about how seriously these folks may or may not have been taking these races, having just arrived […]
Also tagged beitostølen, fis points, liz stephen, morgan arritola, womenA number of Americans and Canadians participated in some big FIS races in Beitostølen, Norway this past weekend. Not all the results have migrated over to the FIS site yet, so I’m just going to focus on the classic distance races from Saturday. We should keep in mind throughout that, from what I’ve read, many […]
Also tagged andrew musgrave, beitostølen, Distance, fis points, ivan babikov, men, simi hamiltonI only have the raw result this time around, so nothing fancy. Instead, we’ll just pick out some people who looked like they had some unusually good races again. There’s a lot less to say here, since it’s a lot harder to measure sprinting performance in ways that account for the strength of the field. […]
Also tagged rybinsk, Sprint, World Cup