JunkCharts was nice enough to feature the Tour de France charts I’ve been playing with as a break from skiing data. Â I learned via one of the commenters there that (unsurprisingly) I’m not alone in this game. Â See here for a handful of similar charts, including ones from previous years.
Tagged cycling, tour de franceAdam, over at NordicXplained, asks: “Everyone knows how well the Canadian men’s team did at the Olympics, but the question that I wanna know is how well they stacked up against other countries. Even though they didn’t win a medal, their average placing in many races surely could have been higher than traditional powerhouses like […]
Tagged canada, men, olympicsMy good friend, and general cycling expert, Cosmo recently tweeted about what he perceived as more GC (overall ranking) shakeups taking place in Tour de France stages with a downhill finish as opposed to uphill, mountaintop, finishes. Â He then followed that up with a comment to that effect, linking back to my bumps chart as […]
Tagged Analysis, cycling, technical, tour de franceAnother couple stages in the books, time for an update of the bumps charts. Â Contador’s still in yellow, Hushovd is back in green and Chartreau is still in polka-dots:
Tagged bump chart, cycling, svg, tour de franceTake that vector graphics animation! For an explanation, see my previous effort. Reminder: This should work in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. But consider it experimental. Reloading the page should restart the animation. I confirmed that this won’t work in Firefox, and that the one SVG plugin for Firefox has been discontinued by Adobe (although apparently […]
Tagged animation, cycling, tour de franceThis was just too cool for me not to put up on the site, even though I’m not completely happy with it. The data are fairly simple: add up the sprint and mountain points across all riders on a Tour de France team for each stage. So for each stage, each team gets the ordered […]
Tagged animation, climbing, cycling, Sprint, tour de franceIf you’re like me, you follow bike racing enough to grasp the basics and be familiar with most of the big names. Â I’ll typically follow the TdF fairly closely, but other than that my cycling news consumption pretty much consists of whatever cool stuff Cosmo happens to write about. That means that when the TdF […]
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