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Race Snapshot: Quebec City Sprint

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2012 12 08 Joran Cross Country
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World Cup Winning Streaks

I noted in a Tweet that Marit Bjoergen is the only skier since 1992 to win each of the four opening World Cup events (sprint and distance) in a row. But if you relax that condition to allow for streaks occurring at any point in the season (and include Olympic and World Championship events), Bjoergen […]

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2012 12 06 Joran Analysis
Cross Country
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US Distance Progress

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 […]

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2012 12 04 Joran Analysis
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Race Snapshot: Kuusamo 10/15k Classic Pursuit

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2012 12 02 Joran Cross Country
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Race Snapshopt: Kuusamo 5/10k Freestyle

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2012 12 01 Joran Cross Country
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Race Snapshot: Kuusamo Classic Sprint

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2012 11 30 Joran Cross Country
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Do the Canadian men struggle early in the season?

Listening to the FasterSkier podcast today, Topher and Nat discussed the notion that the Canadian men frequently seem to struggle early in the season. If we’re talking about how “the Canadian men” perform on the WC level, let’s focus on Kershaw, Harvey and Babikov, since they’ve been the “regulars” on the WC circuit for the […]

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2012 11 30 Joran Analysis
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