Biathletes retire too! Â I will be the first to admit that I know a lot less about biathlon than cross country, though, so these athlete profile posts for biathletes will be as much for my benefit as yours. Martina Beck is (was) a very fast German biathlete. Â The International Biathlon Union has a nice article […]
Tagged biathlon, martina beck, retirement, retrospectiveYet 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.):
Tagged development, Distance, italy, U23, WJCIn this installment of Victims & Nemeses, we consider the Swedish star skiers Marcus Hellner and Charlotte Kalla. Â Who are their victims (people they defeat often by small margins) and nemeses (people who beat them often by small margins)? Let’s take a look…
Tagged charlotte kalla, marcus hellner, nemeses, victimsSo far, applying my alternative sprint points measure to look at skiers with major improvements or declines between seasons has worked OK, but when we turn to female sprinters who saw a major decline things get dicey.
Tagged distributed sprint points, dsp, most unimproved, Sprint, womenMy Summer of Weddings continues this weekend, with some travel and a race to follow. Â Fun times! Â Here’s what we’ve acomplished at Statistical Skier this week: Putting Distributed Sprint Points to good use we looked at the most unimproved male sprinters from last season. Following a suggestion from a reader, I looked at whether there […]
Tagged week in reviewWho? Â Yeah, I’d never heard of her either. Â One of the coolest parts of working on this website is learning how much I didn’t know about international ski racing. The fact that I don’t know about this Swiss skier doesn’t really say anything about her (she’s done 115 World Cup races, 7 World Championship races […]
Tagged laurence rochat, retirement, retrospectiveThat’s what Marcus Hellner says, according to FasterSkier. Â Let’s go to the numbers, shall we? These are all the times these two guys raced against each other last season (distance races, anyway). Â Positive values indicate a victory for Hellner and vice versa. Â You can see Northug’s strength in mass start races, and that Northug had […]
Tagged head to head, marcus hellner, petter northug