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Race Snapshot: IBU WC 1 Women’s Sprint

Another cold, cold day in Östersund today, but a great one for Finland’s Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Germany’s Miriam Gössner.  Full version below the fold.

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2010 12 03 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

Athlete To Watch: Nicole Fessel

Who impressed me most in the races last weekend in Kuusamo?  Well, I have to agree with one of my commenters in picking Germany’s Nicole Fessel.  I’m not crazy enough to stay up till 1am to watch the races live on the internet, so I only have the results to go by.  Still, how impressive […]

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2010 12 02 Joran Uncategorized Comments (3)

Race Snapshots: Kuusamo Sprint

As promised, race snapshot graphs today’s sprint races.  First the reduced versions (top 30, plus North Americans) and the full versions are below the fold (the names on those might be a bit small; there were a lot of racers!). Updated: Bit of a mishap with some of the athlete’s names created some errors.  Fixed […]

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2010 11 26 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

Assessing The Weekend’s Races: Sprint

So on Monday I posted some graphs that were intended to provide some context for some of the distance race results over the weekend.  Sprinting wasn’t left out in the cold because I dislike it (although, to be fair, I’m sort of a traditionalist in this respect; I will always love distance racing more, sorry!), […]

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2010 11 17 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

USST Preview: Andrew Newell

This is part four in a short series of season preview posts on USST athletes in which I’ll review each skier’s results to date and make some guesses about how they’ll fare in the upcoming season.  I don’t have any special insight into the future beyond my database of past race results, and I certainly […]

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2010 11 10 Joran Uncategorized Comments (3)

Comparing Variability In Men’s & Women’s Sprinting

I was listening to FasterSkier’s podcast the other day and was a bit startled to here one of the participants mention me by name![1. By the way, Christopher, it’s pronounced JOR-an; like “Jordan” but with no “d”.  My parents gave me the Scandinavian name, but not the Scandinavian pronunciation.  And shame on you, Colin, for […]

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2010 11 09 Joran Uncategorized Comments (2)

Participation Rates

One really simple question that occurred to me while playing with all this skiing data is, How many races do these athletes actually do? Now, I can’t really answer that completely, since I don’t have every single cross country ski race in existence in my database.  But what I’m really getting at is the notion […]

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2010 10 29 Joran Uncategorized Comments (3)