Sunday Race Rundown: Otepää and More
FIS World Cup Otepää, Estonia classic 10/15 k individual start
World Cup athletes returned to the Otepää race course on Sunday for a distance classic race. In the women's 10-kilometer individual start,...
Enter Johaug?
Lots of racing this weekend, obviously, but the Muonio results only appeared on the FIS website today, so they’ll wait for later in the week. I was intrigued, though, but Therese Johaug’s strong races in Norway. For many reasons, it will be difficult to accurately parse early season results this year. Many people are focused [...]
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Female Long Distance Specialist – Majdic Follow-Up
A commenter noted that it was interesting that Petra Majdic showed up as being “statistically significantly” better at longer distance races (as opposed to sprint races), although just barely. It turns out this is a good example of the statistical concept of leverage. Check out the following graph that compares skiers at each end of [...]
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Are Women’s WC Fields Really ‘Weaker’?
I received an email recently asking about field strength for the men’s and women’s WC fields, particularly as it applies to mass start races. Lately we’ve seen the men’s field engage in a fair bit of pack skiing, whereas the women’s field strings out more quickly. First, I want to dispatch with a common bit [...]
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