Nothing earth shattering about saying, but the US women have clearly made some significant strides in their distance skiing over the past 2-3 seasons. Let’s visualize this first comparing Kikkan Randall to the other US women: Pretty dramatic all around. For some context, let’s plot the same data (but without all the fancy shading) along […]
Also tagged Distance, men, USA, World CupThe men: And the women:
Also tagged classic, kuusamo, men, race snapshot, Sprint, stage world cup, World CupContinuing on with some notes about the World Cup opener in Gällivare last weekend. It’s always the case in a season opener that much will be made of a handful of people who had unexpectedly good or bad races. Usually, this is an overreaction. But let’s play that game anyway and look at two skiers […]
Also tagged andrew musgrave, canada, field depth, gallivare, justyna kowalczyk, USA, World CupNot much to say, really, about the US women this past weekend. The relays aren’t really something I tackle from a data perspective, so I’ll just focus on the distance results form Saturday. It was a strong day, that sounds like it could have been stronger for the US women, absent some falls. I went […]
Also tagged canada, Distance, gallivare, men, US, World CupNeedless to say, a strong day for the US women. In general, this race was a bit unusual, in that the conditions appeared to be extremely fast, which resulted in a much, much tighter race than is typical in an interval start format on the World Cup.
Also tagged Distance, gallivare, men, race snapshot, World Cup