Conventional wisdom holds (so I’m told) that World Cup skiers go faster these days for a variety of reasons: improved grooming technology, improved equipment/waxing, larger athlete pool, better training/diet (on average) etc. Â It would be neat if this trend showed up in results data. Â Namely, have the top times for races of a set distance […]
Tagged Distance, race times, trend, xcOnly a few more weeks until ski season kicks off! We took a look at some of better younger skiers from last season. I posted a rundown on some data from the Dartmouth Ski Team’s Moosilauke time trial. We got a quick look at the ages of World Cup skiers, which included the hint of […]
Tagged week in reviewSometimes it’s a good thing to ask basic questions that everyone thinks they know the answer to. Â Sometimes you get surprising answers, sometimes not. So, how old are World Cup skiers? In general, World Cup skier ages tend to center around 25-26. Â These distributions all have a slight right skew, which just means there tend […]
Tagged Age, trends, World CupIt’s nearing the end of October, which means that if you are a skier hailing from the esteemed institution that I do, that means its time for the Moosilauke time trial. Â It’s an uphill running time trial beginning at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge up the Gorge Brook Trail, ending around 3.6 miles later on the […]
Tagged dartmouth, moosilauke, quantile, running, time trial“Young” is a relative term, of course, which becomes clearer to me with each passing year. Â But there are successful cross-country skiers over quite a wide age range, so it might be fun to focus in on some of the younger ones. Â They are likely the names we’ll be seeing over and over down the […]
Tagged best young skier, DistanceClearly, I was a bit distracted yesterday, so the week in review is a bit delayed. My little guessing game this week was a bit too hard, I think. Â The answers are posted here. We looked at trends over time in variability by athlete, comparing cross-country to biathlon, at the request of a commenter. Finally, […]
Tagged race schedules, week in reviewWell I guess that quiz wasn’t quite as popular. Â I suppose it was a bit harder than I thought. In any case, the race in question was the women’s pursuit at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. Â That means the top five was Beckie Scott – Mystery Skier D Katerina Neumannova – Mystery Skier C Viola […]
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