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Race snapshot graphs from today’s men’s 20km distance race.  Full version below the fold. Related posts:Race Snapshot: Gällivare Race Snapshots: Kuusamo Sprint Race Snapshots: Kuusamo Classic 5/10km Related posts:

1. Race Snapshot: Gällivare
2. Race Snapshots: Kuusamo Sprint
3. Race Snapshots: Kuusamo Classic 5/10km

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Who impressed me most in the races last weekend in Kuusamo?  Well, I have to agree with one of my commenters in picking Germany’s Nicole Fessel.  I’m not crazy enough to stay up till 1am to watch the races live on the internet, so I only have the results to go by.  Still, how impressive [...] Related posts:

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I saw this survey a while back, but had forgotten about it.  Now I see they’ve written up a little summary that has been published both on SkiTrax and FasterSkier.  The actual survey can be found here. Why am I writing about this?  Well, the summary includes some basic statistics.  One of the things that [...] Related posts:

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Sunset over the biathlon venue with Östersund's lake in the background from our room.With the Östersund individual race over, the World Cup season has officially begun. For me, it was a decent race, all things considered, though certainly not the ...

Sunset over the biathlon venue with Östersund's lake in the background from our room.With the Östersund individual race over, the World Cup season has officially begun. For me, it was a decent race, all things considered, though certainly not the ...

All four vans keeping in contact with the radios along the trekmaking the most of it!The past two days we did the trek across the western US up to Silver Star B.C for a training block before our next period of races. The skiing is amazing!! We did a tw...

Can’t leave out the poor biathletes, now can we?  Biathlon doesn’t have a point system like FIS points, so these will all be using raw percent back.  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 [...] Related posts:

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Now let’s turn to the US women biathletes.  The women haven’t managed to produce any results comparable to Tim Burke’s recent success, but there are a ton of young skiers it seems trying to change that.  I’ve noticed a lot of collegiate cross country skiers switching over (or maybe back) to biathlon after graduated, and [...] Related posts:

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Marit Bjørgen commented somewhere that her win at the WC opener in Gällivare, SWE was “the best skate race of her life”.  Sadly, I can’t find where I read that, otherwise I’d have a link for you.  Obviously, I found that kind of intriguing.  Let’s look at Bjørgen’s race in a bit more detail: This [...] Related posts:

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