Another episode of mystery skier! Â Below I’ve graphed the seven seasons of major international distance results for a (very famous) skier in which they recorded at least one top ten result in each season, but never a podium finish. The athlete in question did race beyond 1998, but I’ve omitted those results. Â (That’s a bit […]
Tagged mystery skierThe life of a professional ski racer seems pretty attractive at times. It’s hard work, to be sure, and like any other job parts of it must be very difficult mentally. But you get to spend a ton of time outdoors, travel to all sorts of awesome locales and best of all you get to […]
Maybe it’s the boredom of the offseason, but I sometimes just find myself noodling around in results data looking for anything strange. One random question that occurred to me a while ago was whether anyone had managed to finish in every single place (1st, 2nd,…,30th) in the points, over the course of their WC racing. […]
Tagged random statsWe’re through Stage 15 of the Giro, so here are some updated versions of the accompanying graphs. I made these “high quality” (i.e. PDFs) in case anyone wants to repost them elsewhere. Here’s the overall GC picture: And then we have the same data broken down by team:
Tagged cycling, Fun Stuff, giro d'italia, graphsIt’s not skiing, I know, but I do like to entertain myself by making pretty graphs. So like last summer I’ll be doing some graphical displays for some big stage races. I won’t provide any discussion or analysis, just the graphs for you to enjoy, pass along or share as you please. I do try […]
Tagged cycling, giro d'italiaIn this installment of Victims & Nemeses, we consider the Swedish star skiers Marcus Hellner and Charlotte Kalla. Â Who are their victims (people they defeat often by small margins) and nemeses (people who beat them often by small margins)? Let’s take a look…
Tagged charlotte kalla, marcus hellner, nemeses, victimsTake that vector graphics animation! For an explanation, see my previous effort. Reminder: This should work in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. But consider it experimental. Reloading the page should restart the animation. I confirmed that this won’t work in Firefox, and that the one SVG plugin for Firefox has been discontinued by Adobe (although apparently […]
Tagged animation, cycling, tour de france