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Race Snapshot: IBU WC 7 Men/Women’s Sprint

Strong race for Sara Studebaker today and some good races from Lowell Bailey and Jay Hakkinen as well.

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2011 02 04 Joran Uncategorized Comments (0)

Race Snapshot: Rybinsk 10/20km Pursuit

I care about the Rybinsk races, even if lots of other people don’t. Not surprisingly, a Russian guy won the men’s race, but I’m not sure it was the Russian most people were expecting. Also, exercise some caution with the FIS points; it appeared to be a very tactical race so everyone is pretty close […]

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2011 02 04 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

Rybinsk: Does Anyone Care?

I don’t mean any disrespect by the title, there, it’s just that the Rybinsk World Cups haven’t been very well attended. I was told by a friend recently that the Canadians included as part of their WSC selection criteria the standard of “finishing in the top 20 and the top half of a World Cup […]

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2011 02 04 Joran Uncategorized Comments (2)

Animated WC Points Tracker

A little fun using the Google Charts API, R and my WC points spreadsheet. Both of these motion charts require Flash. It shows the progression of WC points for the top 30 athletes or so throughout this season. Distance points are on the x axis and sprint point are on the y axis. This does […]

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2011 01 31 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

Men’s Sprint Heats Tend To Be More Tactical

I’ve mentioned this from time to time in other posts, but one thing I’ve noticed from the sprint heat times that Jan at WorldOfXC.com has been providing me is that the women’s heats are more likely to increase in speed as the day progresses. I’ve said it enough that I should probably provide some evidence: […]

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2011 01 28 Joran Uncategorized Comments (4)

Biathlon Briefs: Lowell Bailey and Laura Spector

It’s always nice to see my countrymen (and women) skiing fast, so it’s been fun to see Lowell Bailey and Laura Spector posting some good results on the IBU World Cup scene over the past several weeks. Let’s just check in and see how these results compare to their past: These are only “major” races […]

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2011 01 27 Joran Uncategorized Comments (1)

Otepää Sprint Recap

As always, heat time data supplied by WorldOfXC.com. Beginning with the men: Ola Vigen Hattestad went progressively slower as the day wore on, though often there are tactical reasons for that depending on the speed of your heat. And of course, he ended up second. There is also the issue of skiers switching between classic […]

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2011 01 25 Joran Uncategorized Comments (3)