These race snapshot graphs are quite a bit different from usual. Â First, today’s pursuit is essentially an old style two day pursuit with the techniques reversed (skating yesterday, classic today). Â So the stage results from today include yesterday’s time (minus the bonus seconds from yesterday). Â Hence, my race snapshot graphs won’t compare today’s stage to […]
Also tagged race snapshot, tour de skiI debated whether these snapshot graphs would be sensible for the prologue (and also some other TdS stages as well) since the race formats during the Tour are a bit odd, so comparisons to the past are fairly tenuous. Â Also, I think the prologue event is kind of dumb, but that’s just my own bias. […]
Also tagged race snapshot, tour de skiBack in September I wrote a post looking at the supposed woes of Norway’s male distance team. Â The bottom line was that, yes, by various measures things haven’t been looking as good lately for the Norwegian men’s distance squad. Â With the first period of racing completed, and more rumblings in Norway about their poor performance, […]
Also tagged Distance, men, norway, podiums, russia, sweden, victoriesOk, so this isn’t much of a preview. Â Rather it’s just a bird’s eye view of what happened last year using some bumps plots. Â Here’s how things played out for the men: The median skier can sort of be thought of as the “peloton”. Â As you can see, not much happened until Stage 5, the […]
Also tagged bump chart, tour de skiContinuing on from my last post on North American distance skiers, let’s jump right in with the sprinters, starting with the men: No fancy metrics here, just what place people finished in. Â Once again, red is this season, blue is last year’s Olympics. Â Alex Harvey’s sprint race in Kuusamo was unusually good for him. Â Simi […]
Also tagged men, midseason, review, Sprint, womenJust as I did yesterday, let’s take a closer look at the results form Saturday’s World Cup mass start race in La Clusaz, France, this time focusing on the North Americans. Â As I discussed yesterday, we’re going to use percent-back difference plots from mass start or pursuit races to evaluate each skier’s race, since the […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, recap, USA, womenPicking up from my post yesterday, we’ll move on to Kris Freeman: Freeman told FasterSkier that blood sugar issues weren’t a problem, but that he simply didn’t have a great race on Saturday. Â Well, it’s quite clear from this percent-back difference plot what happens when he does have blood sugar problems, as he did last […]
Also tagged Distance, freestyle, la clusaz, mass start, men, recap