Solid day for North America with 5 in the heats, and of course Kikkan’s second sprint podium of the season. Â Just watched the video of the women’s final and there’s no question Kowalczyk changed lanes when she wasn’t supposed to. Â Definitely hindered Randall, but I’m not sure she would have caught Follis.
Also tagged Davos, men, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupHelena Ekholm, back on top; tough day on the range for the Americans (and Magdalena Neuner).
Also tagged biathlon, pursuit, race snapshot, World CupThis is a bit after the fact, but I can’t let good data go to waste. Â Once again, thanks to Jan from WorldofXC.com for providing the data on times from the heats. Ok, let’s get in our time machine and blast our way back to Finland for the women’s sprint: All of the percent back […]
Also tagged kuusamo, men, recap, Sprint, World CupJust the biathlon race snapshots today.  Kind of bummed I didn’t get up and watch the men’s race, as it sounds like it was quite the thriller.  I’ll have some posts up about the XC races in Düsseldorf tomorrow and Tuesday. As always, full versions below the fold.
Also tagged biathlon, men, race snapshot, World CupAnother 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.
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshot, Sprint, World CupCan’t leave out the poor biathletes, now can we? Â Biathlon doesn’t have a point system like FIS points, so these will all be using raw percent back. Â If you’re familiar with these sorts of measures, you’ll notice that percent backs in biathlon are frequently quite a bit higher. For a variety of reasons, it’s harder […]
Also tagged biathlon, race snapshot, World CupBack on Monday I posted the graph shown below and posed a question: It turns out I didn’t ask my question very clearly, because I had to keep updating the post with clarifications. Â So that’s my fault. Â Maybe this time I’ll do better. Â What I did was plot a part of the time series of […]
Also tagged arianna follis, Distance, lina andersson, manuela henkel, marit bjoergen, podium, prediction, stefanie boehler