Next up in my series of skier retirements is the Swedish sprinter Anna Olsson (prior to marrying teammate Johan Olsson in 2008 she competed using her maiden name, Dahlberg). Compared to the other skiers I’ve profiled, Olsson’s career was relatively short, stretching from 2001 to the present. Â Also, as I’ve sort of given away in […]
Tagged anna dahlberg, anna olsson, retirement, retrospectiveNow for the women who had rough seasons in 09-10. Â Once again, Â a quick reminder, we’re looking at changes in the average FIS points of a skier’s best five (distance) races between just these two seasons. Below is the top ten table: [table id=11] Our winner, French skier Coraline Hugue had some promising seasons in […]
Tagged awards, Distance, most unimproved, womenA far less cheery topic than skier improvement is, well, the opposite. Â Lacking a better term, I’m sticking with “unimproved”. Â That’s not technically accurate, since I’m actually looking at skiers who went considerably slower year to year. Â But I feel bad enough pointing out trends like these, no need to add gratuitously insulting terminology to […]
Tagged Distance, men, unimproved, World CupAs before, we’re looking at the change in the average of a skier’s best five distance races (by FIS points) from the ’08-’09 to the ’09-’10 season. Â You must have raced in at least five major international events (WC, WSC, or OWG) to be considered. Here’s the table of the ten most improved women: [table […]
Tagged Distance, most improved, womenLast week I posted a short item looking at how Bjoern Daehlie and Vladimir Smirnov fared against each other, head to head. Â Here’s a little reminder of the sort of fun this entails: I don’t know about you, but I thought that was pretty fun, so I figured I’d do some more. But who? Â That’s […]
Tagged head to head, pollRanking athletes based on FIS points, or some other measure, is relatively easy. Â Sometimes rankings are fun, because they give sports nuts something to argue about. Â Sometimes, however, things devolve into annoying arguments about the specific measure you’re using to rank the athletes with. Any such measure has flaws, and FIS points are no different. […]
Tagged Athlete Ranking, Distance, head to headA lot of the stuff I’ve done so far on this site looks at data over fairly long periods of time. Â Let’s switch things up and look only at the previous two World Cup seasons. Â Awards for most improved skiers have a special place in my heart due to my own skiing career, which had […]
Tagged awards, Distance, most improved