Nothing earth shattering about saying, but the US women have clearly made some significant strides in their distance skiing over the past 2-3 seasons. Let’s visualize this first comparing Kikkan Randall to the other US women: Pretty dramatic all around. For some context, let’s plot the same data (but without all the fancy shading) along […]
Also tagged men, USA, women, World CupListening to the FasterSkier podcast today, Topher and Nat discussed the notion that the Canadian men frequently seem to struggle early in the season. If we’re talking about how “the Canadian men” perform on the WC level, let’s focus on Kershaw, Harvey and Babikov, since they’ve been the “regulars” on the WC circuit for the […]
Also tagged Analysis, canadan, early season, men, Sprint, trend, World CupNot much to say, really, about the US women this past weekend. The relays aren’t really something I tackle from a data perspective, so I’ll just focus on the distance results form Saturday. It was a strong day, that sounds like it could have been stronger for the US women, absent some falls. I went […]
Also tagged canada, gallivare, men, US, women, World CupNeedless to say, a strong day for the US women. In general, this race was a bit unusual, in that the conditions appeared to be extremely fast, which resulted in a much, much tighter race than is typical in an interval start format on the World Cup.
Also tagged gallivare, men, race snapshot, women, World CupWell, 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 […]
Also tagged best season, men, women, World CupAs promised from last time, I’m going to show you the un-aggregated data from Tuesday’s plots. This means we’re going to have some big graphs, bigger than I typically think is useful, but no matter. I’ve plotted FIS points versus age for each of the male and female skiers with a podium result in a […]
Also tagged development, men, women, World CupI happened to be thinking about visualizations of athlete development recently, and in the process cooked up the following graph: What I’ve done here is to take the podium finishers in major international events for the past five seasons and recorded each person’s age when they received their first (individual) WC/OWG/WSC start, when they scored […]
Also tagged development, men, Sprint, women, World Cup