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US Olympic Assessment
So, how did the US do overall at the Olympics this year? Well, as usual, I’m going to mostly ignore the team events. As I did before, here’s some historical context for our results this time around: That’s all WSC and OWG results for Americans stretching back to 1992. It’s still kind of hard […]
Tagged Analysis, men, olympics, recap, sochi, USA, womenEffect of TdS on Olympic Results
Multiple people emailed me asking about whether there was any potential link between whether an athlete participated in the Tour de Ski and their performance at the Sochi Olympics. Personally, I like dealing with questions like this because they are a great example of how something can both be poor statistical reasoning, but still true […]
Tagged Analysis, olympics, sochi, tour de skiSochi Sprint Qualifying Times
A friend mentioned to me in passing the fairly large gaps in the qualifying times for the Sochi freestyle spring between certain skiers, so I became a little curious. The following graph shows the percent back in qualifying time for the Sochi sprint (red) for the top 30 qualifiers, along with the same data for […]
Tagged Analysis, freestyle, olympics, qualifying, sochi, Sprint