Picking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday. Â Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, World CupSaturday was the first long mass start race of the World Cup season in La Clusaz, France, and along with mass start races come difficulties in measuring performance in a sensible manner. Â The women’s field didn’t help matters by having the top three ski away from the field. So you end up with some odd […]
Also tagged curdin perl, daniel rickardsson, Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, riitta-liisa roponen, therese johaug, women, World CupOnce again thanks to Jan at WorldofXC.com for providing the split time data for the sprint races on Sunday. Â Very different developments of heat times in this race compared to the last two sprint races. Â Let’s check out the women first: Note that these are just the raw times from the heats, so it does […]
Also tagged bump chart, Davos, splits, Sprint, World CupThis recap is going to be fairly short. Â I’m going to pass over Kris Freeman and Kikkan Randall, since neither had spectacular races but in neither case does it seem particularly significant to me. Â Freeman reportedly was recovering from a cold and still managed a decent, but unimpressive race. Â Randall had a legitimately bad race, […]
Also tagged Davos, devon kershaw, Distance, george grey, ivan babikov, liz stephen, morgan arritola, World CupI’ll have a separate post covering some of the North Americans tomorrow. Â As usual, the choice of athletes to focus on is whatever strikes my fancy. Â If you have suggestions/requests after each race, let me know in the comments of the race snapshot posts. The first thing I want to note about Saturday’s distance races […]
Also tagged alexey poltaranin, classic, Davos, Distance, krista lahteenmaki, masako ishida, World CupThis is a bit after the fact, but I can’t let good data go to waste. Â Once again, thanks to Jan from WorldofXC.com for providing the data on times from the heats. Ok, let’s get in our time machine and blast our way back to Finland for the women’s sprint: All of the percent back […]
Also tagged kuusamo, men, Sprint, women, World CupA couple of big names were doing some smaller FIS races this past weekend.  Petter Northug is trying to regain his form after a rough start to his season mixed with some illness, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen is recovering from a shoulder injury and Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset is trying to work his way onto the Norweigan squad for […]
Also tagged aino-kaisa saarinen, odd-bjoern hjelmeset, petter northug