Multiple people emailed me asking about whether there was any potential link between whether an athlete participated in the Tour de Ski and their performance at the Sochi Olympics. Personally, I like dealing with questions like this because they are a great example of how something can both be poor statistical reasoning, but still true […]
Tagged Analysis, olympics, sochi, tour de skiA friend mentioned to me in passing the fairly large gaps in the qualifying times for the Sochi freestyle spring between certain skiers, so I became a little curious. The following graph shows the percent back in qualifying time for the Sochi sprint (red) for the top 30 qualifiers, along with the same data for […]
Tagged Analysis, freestyle, olympics, qualifying, sochi, SprintOn a day like today it’s probably best not to dwell on what could have been, at least for US fans. Instead, here’s some context for how we’re doing so far, compared to our results in previous Olympics and World Championships back to the early 90’s: It may be tough to swallow today, but […]
Tagged Analysis, olympics, sochi, USA