I was reading FasterSkier’s profile of the Japanese World Cup skiers and a few people commented about how Japan had a good showing at World Juniors/U23s this past season. Â Naturally that got me thinking about how little I know about these guys, so I thought I’d make some graphs. First up is a simple time […]
Also tagged japan, WJC/U23Continuing 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 […]
Also tagged Age, development, WJC/U23Yet another in a continuing series. Â This time, Italy. Â First up is the original form of the graph where each panel contains athletes grouped by their best performance at WJCs or U23s (1-5, 6-10, etc.):
Also tagged development, Distance, italy, WJCAnother installment looking at how athletes have faired following WJC/U23 racing. This time we’re looking at Germany, a country that gained some notoriety over the last 10-15 years for a dramatic turnaround in athlete development. Â At least, that’s what I remember the conventional wisdom being. We’ll start with just the basic graph (click through for […]
Also tagged development, Distance, WJCIn a short piece on FasterSkier the other day, I showed a graph that examined the FIS points vs. age trends of skiers broken down by their success at WJCs or U23s. Â In it, I highlighted only the American athletes, apart from the general trends for all skiers. I thought that I’d continue with a […]
Also tagged Age, canada, development, WJC