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Thursday, August 11, 2005
A couple of notes about the middle distance race
Simone Niggli and Thierry Gueorgiou by fairly big margins. Looking at the splits and the split analysis on the WOC pages, it looks like they each had very different ways to win big. (If you're interested, check out splits for the men and women).
To simplify things a bit: Niggli navigated well, but really gained by running faster than her competition; while Gueorgio ran well, but really gained by navigating better than his compeition.
In the sprint qualifying, Tore Sandvik made a big mistake when he misread his course (see yesterday's posting). In the middle final, Kalle Dalin was DQ'd because he ran from 4 to 6 without punching at 5. Ouch. Looking at the map, you can see how that could happen.
posted by Michael |
8:16 PM