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Race Snapshot: WBC Men/Women’s Pursuit

Some dramatic gaps between the leaders and the field today in both races.

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2011 03 06 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: WBC Sprint

Biathlon 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.

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2011 03 05 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: WSC Women’s 30k

Wow, what a performance by Therese Johaug today! Of course, FIS points might be a tad misleading for many of the skiers as a result:

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2011 03 05 Joran Uncategorized Comments (3)

WSC Women’s 10km Classic Recap

Another race, another win for Marit Bjørgen, although Justyna Kowalczyk certainly came pretty close this time. And a dominant showing by the Norwegian and Finnish women in general, as they made up 8 of the top 10. Here’s some perspective on the performances by the top six women (click through for full version): This measure […]

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2011 03 01 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

WSC Pursuit Recap: North Americans

Ok, now we can talk about how the North Americans fared this weekend. Once again with the very large graphs, starting with the women: Not a ton of racing experience at this level in this group, obviously. It’s tempting to focus on the fact that Stephen, Brooks and Diggins were all in the top thirty, […]

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2011 02 28 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

WSC Pursuit Recap Addendum

Just to follow up from my previous post, here’s a look at a few other women who had particularly good or bad days on Saturday: I suspected that Nicole Fessel would have some strong races this week and this was certainly a good one. There were just too many people who skied faster. After a […]

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2011 02 28 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: WSC Women’s 10k Classic

It sounds like Kowalczyk actually made it interesting this time around, although I have to say that while Bjørgen is impressive, this might actually get boring after a while. Or maybe Bjør-ing? Anyway, it’s nice to see Lahteenmaki get a strong result in at World Championships after having so many good races this season. And […]

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2011 02 28 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)