Statistical Skier

What a crazy story for Lowell Bailey today! Too bad, hopefully he can channel the frustration into skiing fast next time around.

I only have the raw result this time around, so nothing fancy. Instead, we’ll just pick out some people who looked like they had some unusually good races again. There’s a lot less to say here, since it’s a lot harder to measure sprinting performance in ways that account for the strength of the field. […]

I feel like a grade school teacher, checking off names and such, but let’s see how many folks actually showed up in Rybinsk compared to past years: I’ve plotted the number of racers and nations present in the sprint and distance events in Rybinsk, along with the corresponding averages for all other World Cup events […]

Better late than never, I suppose. As you might expect from the Rybinsk events, a lot of people ended up doing better than they usually do. The few exceptions seemed to be John Kristian Dahl, Natalia Korosteleva and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, although I’m not sure how close to top form Saarinen is at the moment.