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Øystein Pettersen’s Sprinting

Since the interviews on the FIS websites is one of my main sources of post topics during the off season, we’ll continue in that vein with one from a while back with Øystein Pettersen. In it, he talks about how his focus this season is (unsurprisingly) the classic sprint at World Championships. Pettersen has been [...] Related posts:
  1. Technique Preferences: Norway
  2. Sweden’s Men’s Sprinting
  3. Can Kikkan Randall Win The Sprint WC Title?

Inge Braten

In some very sad news, we learned recently that Inge Braten passed away rather suddenly. It is difficult (and probably slightly foolish) to try to quantify a coach’s impact on skiing results, so let’s consider this post a rememberance, rather than an analysis. Perhaps most famously, Braten coached the Norwegian men during their “Golden Era”: (My [...] Related posts:
  1. Is It Panic Time For The Norwegian Men’s Distance Skiers?
  2. NOW Is It Panic Time For The Norwegian Men’s Distance Team?
  3. Sweden’s Men’s Sprinting

Quality time in Craftsbury

For the last two weeks or so, I’ve been holding down the fort here in Craftsbury as my teammates travel and race all over God’s white acre. In the short span between January 19th and February 2nd, the CGRP has been represented at races in Italy, Germany, Estonia, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Norway, and the western United States…AND at the Craftsbury Marathon, of course. While [...]

Andrew Musgrave at Norwegian Nationals

First of all, I’ll echo Nat Herz’s big ups to Andrew Musgrave for finishing second at Norwegian Nationals the other day. I’ve always been a bit fascinated by Musgrave, probably because North Americans identify with any reasonably successful, promising skier not from Scandinavia or the usual European nations as fellow “outsiders”. So I’m always kind [...] Related posts:
  1. Is It Panic Time For The Norwegian Men’s Distance Skiers?
  2. Weekend FIS Races: Andrew Musgrave
  3. NOW Is It Panic Time For The Norwegian Men’s Distance Team?

European Mid-Season Review

This will just be a short note with similar graphs as last time, only for a few of the major European nations. Men’s Distance Sweden continues to generally improve. Note that in terms of top thirty performances, Norway has steadily declined over the years, but not among the top ten or better level. So they’ve [...] Related posts:
  1. Mid-Season Recap: North American Distance
  2. Mid-Season Review: North American Sprint
  3. Mid-Season Review: USA Biathlon

Who’s Producing Fast Young Male Skiers?

A quick follow up to my previous post on the same topic for women. Swap Germany for Russia, and otherwise the answer is largely unchanged: Once again, this is the number of skiers born since 1988 who’s best FIS points results last season averaged better than 50 FIS points. I used a more strict cutoff [...] Related posts:
  1. Best Young Distance Skiers: 2009-2010
  2. Best Young Sprint Skiers: 2009-2010
  3. Are My Lists Of Improved Skiers Correlated With Age?

Who’s Producing Fast Young Female Skiers?

Answer: Norway. And Russia. Looking forward to the upcoming season, I’m somewhat astounded by the number of talented young Norwegian women on the horizon. Here’s a quick snapshot of what I’m talking about. I took female skiers born no earlier than 1988 who did at least 3 FIS races last season, and averaged their best [...] Related posts:
  1. Is It Panic Time For The Norwegian Men’s Distance Skiers?
  2. Best Young Distance Skiers: 2009-2010
  3. Best Young Sprint Skiers: 2009-2010
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