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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
World Cup Sprints
Today was the sprint qualifying race for the World Cup in Italy.
As I was looking at the results, something jumped out at me as unusual. One of the qualifying race winners was in 13th place at the first control. To be that behind that many other competitors and still win is unusual, but not unheard of. I opened my spreadsheet of placing at the first control (which is now up to 64 races) and calculated the percent of races won by someone in 13th or worse at the first control. Just 6 percent of the race winners are behind so many people at the first control.
If you poke around the results carefully, you'll probably see what seems to have happened.
US Sprint Results
The U.S. Team did pretty well. I think two women qualified and one man was close. Sprint is the discipline that I expect the U.S. Team to have the best chance of good results. Let's hope for some good races at tomorrow's sprint final.
Gueorgiou's Sprint Training
Gueorgiou posted a map he used for sprint training. It is obviously not a completly fieldchecked sprint O' map. It looks like a street plan with maybe a few details added.
posted by Michael |
7:45 PM
