Recent content by Cousin Orson

Honestly mate, did you even follow the sport before 2023? You have exposed yourself as totally ignorant of the facts. At the time of the russian expulsion, Bolshunov had nearly 3 times as many WC distance wins as Kläbo. He dominated the distance WC, winning the overall 3 years in a row from...

How am I wrong though? You may disagree about the status of the sprint but it is a novel event with no historical analogue which complicates any comparision with past greats. It is apples and oranges. Dählie is ahead of Kläbo in both WC titles and individual WCH/Olympic golds. This is just...

I do feel bad for Kläbo that he was not given the chance to prove himself the best in the world on his home turf in Trondheim. Through no fault of his own, he may never get another chance to win a proper XC ski race in an actual WCH or Olympics.

Kläbo is certainly not the G.O.A.T. At the highest level greatness is determined by two things: - Individual WCH/OG gold medals. - Overall WC titles. Kläbo has 4 WC titles to Dählies 6 and 9 golds to Dählies 11. Kläbo is behind Dählie in both metrics, but even this comparision is rather...

Nora Sanness and Kristin Fosnaes have done two freestyle races in the WC after the TdS. 20k F Engadin 1. Slind 2. Sanness +3.6 3. Sundling +20.2 14. Fosnaes +1.11.8 20k F Falun 1. Diggins 2. Weng +0.7 3. Andersson +0.8 4. Sanness +5.9 12. Fosnaes +53.2 Sanness has matched the strongest...

van der Poel has published a document detailing his training program from May 2019 - February 2022. https://www.howtoskate.se/

2021: All three races in your sample had 110+ athletes. 2020: Only five out of nine races had more than 60 athletes and one had 30. Meaning, in all of the 2021 races, you are comparing Elvira's performance to a ski time outside the top 55, but in close to half of the 2020 races, you are...