Continuing on from my last post on North American distance skiers, let’s jump right in with the sprinters, starting with the men: No fancy metrics here, just what place people finished in. Â Once again, red is this season, blue is last year’s Olympics. Â Alex Harvey’s sprint race in Kuusamo was unusually good for him. Â Simi […]
Also tagged men, midseason, review, women, World CupMy post on the differing performance of Japanese skiers by technique (classic vs. freestyle) got a lot of positive responses and a few requests that I use the same methods on some other countries. Â First up is Italy. I’ve tweaked and refined my model a fair bit, hopefully for the better. Â The basic idea is […]
Also tagged Analysis, Distance, italy, men, technical, technique preference, womenThis is a follow-up post to an earlier entry where I noted an off-hand comment by US coach Chris Grover that when Kikkan Randall qualifies in the top ten in a sprint race, that this is a good sign that she has a good chance of making it to the finals. I looked at some […]
Also tagged andrew newell, kikkan randall, qualificationKind of a rough day for the Americans today in biathlon, but some solid Canadian results. Â Brendan Green and Scot Perras both had good races as well as Zina Kocher.
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshot, World CupSo US coach Chris Grover mentioned to FasterSkier.com that he thought that when Kikkan Randall qualifies in the top ten that’s a really good sign that she has a good chance to make the finals. I did this once before with an interesting quote of his, and I feel kind of bad. Â I’m not trying […]
Also tagged andrew newell, chris grover, kikkan randall, quotesOne of the interesting things we can look at with sprint races is differences between the various heats themselves, rather than individual skiers. Â Interestingly, reconstructing this information, namely who was in what quarterfinal or semifinal, using just the split times took a little bit of thought. Â Not a monumental challenge, but it was a bit […]
Also tagged bump chart, Davos, heats, splits, 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, recap, splits, World Cup