I wrote this a while back, intending to pen similar posts for the men, but never got around to it, mainly because I’ve been working on other stuff (Statistical Skier related, but different…). But since I made the graphs, I thought I’d share them even if I never get around to the men’s post… Let’s […]
Also tagged biathlon, laura s, sara studebaker, women, World Cup, zina kocherLast, but not least, Â the women’s sprinters, which was easily the highlight of the season for the Americans: The Canadian women recovered somewhat after two rough seasons. While they didn’t have the eye-catching results of Kikkan Randall, the Canadian women have three different skiers (Crawford, Gaiazova, Jones) who qualified for the heats more than once, […]
Also tagged canada, kikkan randall, recap, Sprint, USA, womenThis week it’s the sprinter’s turn in the limelight, starting with the men. As you might imagine, there are quite a few more cheery topics when talking about North American sprinters. As before we’ll begin with a simple plot showing the number of results per race over time: The American men have seen a steady […]
Also tagged alex harvey, andrew newell, devon kershaw, len valjas, men, simi hamilton, SprintI think most people generally have a sense for how the past World Cup season went for the North Americans. What I’m going to do over the next few posts is to simply show some data that hopefully provides some context for what you already know. I’m going to split them into four posts for […]
Also tagged alex harvey, canada, devon kershaw, Distance, kris freeman, men, noah hoffman, USA