A solid race from Andrew Newell, and a decent one for Kikkan Randall given that it’s a classic race. And that’s it for the sprint races for the year…
Also tagged city sprint, classic, men, race snapshot, stage, women, World Cup, world cup finalAs always, the sprint heat times are thanks to Jan at WorldOfXC.com. I was travelling yesterday, so not only did I not watch these races, I haven’t even really read about them yet either. So this will be an interesting guessing game for me, to see how much I can infer from just the the […]
Also tagged classic, lahti, men, recap, women, World CupThe women’s sprint race on Saturday didn’t see quite as many unusual faces at the top: Overall, Magdalena Neuner appears to have slipped a bit this season, but she put in an excellent performance on this day. Kaisa Mäkäräinen has really made a jump this year, both in her overall performance level and her shooting. […]
Also tagged biathlon, recap, wbc, womenThat’s right, we’re taking my new biathlon plots out for a spin this week. The World Biathlon Championships kicked off the individual events on Saturday with the sprint. Here’s a look at the top men (click through for full version): The top panels are plotting the standardized percent back from the median skier (adjusted for […]
Also tagged biathlon, men, recap, wbcBiathlon returns! Sadly, not a great day for the US women. But Leif Nordgren had a fantastic race. Not as fantastic, perhaps, as Edgars Piksons from Latvia, though. Wow.
Also tagged men, race snapshot, wbc, womenJust a quick note (no graphs) with some historical perspective on the Swedish men’s performance in yesterday’s sprint race. It was somewhat of a surprise seeing Marcus Hellner win, and indeed the Swedes put three (Hellner, Jönsson and Modin) all in the top 5. As far as I can tell, the last time the Swedish […]
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