The third in the series, looking at differences in performance in skating vs. classic races for particular nations. Â We’ve already done Japan and Italy. Â Now, by request, we have Norway. To avoid repeating myself, I’m going to skip much of the introduction and explanation for the methodology and graphs. Â Go read the Italy post if […]
Also tagged Distance, men, norway, Sprint, technical, technique preference, womenMy post on the differing performance of Japanese skiers by technique (classic vs. freestyle) got a lot of positive responses and a few requests that I use the same methods on some other countries. Â First up is Italy. I’ve tweaked and refined my model a fair bit, hopefully for the better. Â The basic idea is […]
Also tagged Distance, italy, men, Sprint, technical, technique preference, womenIn my race recap for the Davos distance race I noted the strong performance of Masako Ishida, and pointed out what an extreme classic specialist she is. Â A certain world famous XC skiing journalist wanted to know if the conventional wisdom he’d heard was correct, that Japan’s skiers typically do better in classic skiing overall. […]
Also tagged classic, japan, R, technicalWhen most people say that World Cup skiers are animals, they probably mean they are fierce, strong competitors. Â I got my PhD in statistics in a department that found itself working quite often with very strong wildlife biology and ecology departments, so for me that reference leads me to think, “Well, what if they really […]
Also tagged Distance, R, survival, technical, World CupAn old Dartmouth teammate of mine contacted me recently and asked if I’d be interested in looking at some triathlon data. Â He has some ulterior motives here, as his sister is a very good triathlete. Â Since he volunteered to gather the data himself (I believe from triathlon.org mostly) and send it to me, I just […]
Also tagged R, triathlonIn one of the articles I wrote for FasterSkier.com, someone asked a question in the comments that I thought was interesting, so I dashed off a quick answer. Â Sadly, as is common when I do something quickly, I made a mistake. Â So I need to correct the record. Commenter triguy mentioned that it would be […]
Also tagged biathlon, churn, xcI was following Andrew Gardner’s twitter feed a while back during the USSA spring meetings, and he mentioned a comment by James Southam that American courses are far easier than those in Europe. [1. I’m paraphrasing here; it was something to that effect.] That got me thinking about whether there was any way I could […]
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