Continuing on from my previous post, let’s move on to look at how different nations fared compared to last year’s Tour (click through for full versions): The German men struggled, but mainly that shows up here as skiers dropping out rather than performing poorly. Â In fact, the one German man who made it all the […]
Also tagged bump chart, tour de ski, World CupNow that the entire Tour is in the books, here’s how it played out, at least the big picture: I have to say, good job to Fransesc Soulie (AND) and Callum Watson (AUS) for hanging in there, despite being way off the back. Â Eight races in ten days is a tough feat, even for the […]
Also tagged bump chart, dario cologna, justyna kowalczyk, marianna longa, martin jaks, therese johaug, tour de ski, World CupLike last time a look at the performance of skiers from different nations in this year’s TdS and last year’s. Â As always, click through for full versions, as these are somewhat large: Again, apologies if your favorite country isn’t shown. The Russian men actually seem to be doing about the same, with a handful of […]
Also tagged bump chart, men, tour de ski, womenIt was a banner day for North America, to be sure. Â Let’s take a look at how the heats played out, starting with the semifinalists: I’ve removed Roger Aa Djupvik from the men’s plot, as he ran into a spot of difficulty in the quarters and packed it in for a very slow time. Â It’ll […]
Also tagged devon kershaw, freestyle, kikkan randall, Sprint, tour de skiOnce again, not much commentary here, just some graphs showing some notable individuals progress through the tour. Â I haven’t highlighted all the leaders, per se, just some of the top people and some other interesting ones. No one’s likely to touch Kowalczyk for the overall, although there’s a lot of racing left to be done. […]
Also tagged alex harvey, andrew newell, bump chart, canada, ivan babikov, kikkan randall, kris freeman, tour de ski, USAI’m not going to provide much analysis here, just the graphs. Â Feel free to pontificate in the comments. Â First up is the overall Tour rank after each stage: The two day pursuit created more chaos in the overall placings than I expected. Â Somewhat more significant movement in the sprint in Stage 3 with the men, […]
Also tagged bump chart, tour de skiJust as I did yesterday, let’s take a closer look at the results form Saturday’s World Cup mass start race in La Clusaz, France, this time focusing on the North Americans. Â As I discussed yesterday, we’re going to use percent-back difference plots from mass start or pursuit races to evaluate each skier’s race, since the […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, USA, women, World Cup