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 […]
Tagged beitostølen, early season, marit bjo, therese johaug, womenContinuing with the athlete development theme recently, here’s a graph showing the age at which a skier races in their first WC versus their overall median WC result: For fairly obvious reasons, you have read this fairly carefully, particularly at the more extreme ages. I wouldn’t pay much attention to either panel past the age […]
Tagged Age, development, men, women, World CupI got a request for some similar graphs from my podium development posts, but focused more on the domestic scene. So, for example, we had this graph: This showed the age at which future WC podium finishers achieved a particular milestone. So let’s turn to just US and Canadian skiers who have simply participated in […]
Tagged Analysis, development, World CupJust following up from Tuesday with the race snapshot graph for the women’s GS race on Saturday:
Tagged alpine, giant slalom, women, World CupAfter correcting a few typos in the the “official” results I thought we’d look again at the time histories for Dartmouth’s Moosilauke time trial. The following graph depicts every result (except for 2011, which I still can’t find anywhere). The blue is the median for each individual running; this includes both summer and fall times. […]
Tagged dartmouth, domestic, moosilauke time trial, runningAs FasterSkier mentioned the other day, the Dartmouth Ski Team’s Moosilauke time trial is a pretty neat data set, since they’ve kept the data going back quite a ways. Interpretations are sometimes a challenge, since the course has changed from time to time when trail work is done. My sources tell me that in addition […]
Tagged dartmouth, domestic, moosilauke time trialWell, ok, not ever. Â Just over the past 20 seasons or so. There are all sorts of different ways we could measure this. Â First, some ground rules: I’m only going to look at actual World Cup races, no Olympics or World Championships. Â I’m also excluding Tour de Ski events because these are my rules, so […]
Tagged best season, Distance, men, women, World Cup