Lots of racing this weekend, obviously, but the Muonio results only appeared on the FIS website today, so they’ll wait for later in the week. I was intrigued, though, but Therese Johaug’s strong races in Norway. For many reasons, it will be difficult to accurately parse early season results this year. Many people are focused […]
Also tagged beitostølen, early season, marit bjo, therese johaugContinuing with the athlete development theme recently, here’s a graph showing the age at which a skier races in their first WC versus their overall median WC result: For fairly obvious reasons, you have read this fairly carefully, particularly at the more extreme ages. I wouldn’t pay much attention to either panel past the age […]
Also tagged Age, development, men, World CupJust following up from Tuesday with the race snapshot graph for the women’s GS race on Saturday:
Also tagged alpine, giant slalom, World CupWhile we’re waiting for the cross-country season to get under way… The alpine World Cup season kicked off this past weekend in Soelden, Austria with Giant Slalom events for both men and women. Here’s a race snapshot graph for the men’s race on Sunday: American Ted Ligety won by a rather impressive margin. Apparently, that […]
Also tagged alpine, giant slalom, men, soelden, ted ligety, 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, Distance, men, World CupAs promised from last time, here we have the detailed development plots for sprinting. First the men: And the women:
Also tagged development, men, Sprint, 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, Distance, men, World Cup