The Sochi Olympics are naturally going to be the focus this season, and all the attention during Olympics is on winning medals. So naturally, much of the conversation of the next six months or so is going revolve around “Who’s going to win a medal at Sochi?” Well, from one perspective, the answer is pretty […]
Also tagged Analysis, owg, sochi, womenThis is the group of men who had some of the biggest slides backwards this season, although as we’ll see it is sort of an odd collection. Unlike both of the previous most improved posts, this group of skiers seems to include some people who shouldn’t be here. Part of that is that I’m using […]
Also tagged Distance, most unimproved, World CupNow that the World Cup season has wrapped up, it’s time for a series of graphs looking at who made big jumps, in either direction, this year. We’ll start with the most improved in the men’s distance events. The criteria here is sort of a blend of different measures, with an adjustment for scale, so […]
Also tagged Distance, most improved, World CupI couldn’t just leave Tuesday’s post without doing the same thing for the distance events. So here is another moderately curated selection of skiers who have never won an individual distance race, and yet their median result is better than 20th. Half of Skofterud’s distance races she’s placed better than 13th, but she’s never […]
Also tagged Distance, women, World CupI received a request last week to look at sprinters who have had very good careers, but have never won a major race. I took a fairly simplistic route to this, and grabbed all the skiers who have never won a WC, OWG or WSC sprint event, and then simply calculated their career median result. […]
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Also tagged classic, Distance, falun, mass start, race snapshot, women, wordl cup, world cup finalMen’s race: Women’s race:
Also tagged Distance, falun, prologue, race snapshot, women, World Cup, world cup final