Continuing in my series of posts (see here and here) we move on to Norway. Â This presents some problems, graphically, since as you might imagine there are many, many more Norwegians who’ve skied well at WJCs or U23s. Â This means that if I simply recreate the graphs following my previous examples, they will likely be […]
Tagged Age, development, U23, WJC/U23One of my articles for FasterSkier.com looked at variability in skier performance, particularly among elite World Cup skiers.  In truth, I kind of dashed that article off in a hurry simply because Kris Freeman happened to make a comment about the topic on his blog, and have always wanted to come back to the subject.
Tagged variability, visualization, WJC/U23Apparently this is our modern rivalry on the men’s side of things. Â I suppose the Norwegians and Swedes will always find something to torment each other over, so this one is as good as any. Â Obviously, this story has many chapters left to be written, but let’s take a look at how things have progressed […]
Tagged head to head, marcus hellner, petter northugIn 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, victimsSo far, applying my alternative sprint points measure to look at skiers with major improvements or declines between seasons has worked OK, but when we turn to female sprinters who saw a major decline things get dicey.
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, most unimproved, Sprint, womenWe’re picking up from where we left off last time, so go check that out to get up to speed. What happens if instead of only looking at two groups (skiers reaching the podium, skiers not reaching the podium) we get a little more sophisticated and include more information? First, let’s just look to see […]
Tagged development, Distance, podium, WJC/U23I recently received the following query from a reader: I have looked lately into the Junior Worlds results and World Cup/World Championships results of all 2010 Olympic Gold medalists and almost all of them had an outstanding careers while they raced as juniors…If our end goal is to win Olympics then we have to look […]
Tagged development, Distance, medals, podium, WJC/U23