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Alpine World Cup – Soelden

Just following up from Tuesday with the race snapshot graph for the women’s GS race on Saturday:

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2012 11 01 Joran Alpine
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Alpine World Cup – Soelden

While 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 […]

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2012 10 30 Joran Alpine
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Best Season Ever: Distance

Well, ok, not ever.  Just over the past 20 seasons or so. There are all sorts of different ways we could measure this.  First, some ground rules: I’m only going to look at actual World Cup races, no Olympics or World Championships.  I’m also excluding Tour de Ski events because these are my rules, so […]

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2012 10 18 Joran Analysis
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Podium Development – Sprinting

As promised from last time, here we have the detailed development plots for sprinting. First the men: And the women:

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2012 10 16 Joran Analysis
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Development Patterns In Detail

As 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 […]

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2012 10 11 Joran Analysis
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Development Questions

I 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 […]

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2012 10 09 Joran Analysis
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Manuela Di Centa

A curious report surfaced a while back that included some doping allegations around Juha Mieto and Manuela Di Centa. I can’t say that I’d ever heard any rumors about either skier in the past. As with every other post I’ve done on a skier accused of doping, this look at their results data isn’t meant […]

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2012 10 04 Joran Analysis
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