Prediction Game: Who’s Gonna Podium In Their Very Next Race?

Five mystery skiers, all women. For each skier, their very next (distance) race is a WC, OWG or WSC race. Which of them are going to finish on the podium (top 3) in their very next race?

To make things a bit more challenging, I’ve omitted the x axis labels (which is date, not age), so you can’t work backwards from what season I’ve stopped each graph in. Update: Just to clarify, the tick marks on the x axis represent a time gap of about five years. But I will tell you that the races that I have plotted aren’t limited to major international competitions (WC, OWG, WSC); I’ve plotted every distance result I have for each skier.

Update2: Apparently I can’t seem to write very clearly this morning. It should also help to know that the “next race” each skier is about to do is potentially a completely different race. So it’s not like they (or any of them) are about to compete in the same race against each other.

I will also tell you that there is at least one skier who podiums and that for those who do podium, it’s their first career podium.

Leave your guesses in the comments!

I’d say I’m going to post the answers tomorrow, but my traffic probably isn’t high enough to warrant that quick a turnaround. How about we leave this open until Friday?

Update 3: Yet another reader requests a hi-re version of the graph. Honestly, I don’t think it will help much. But I am nothing if not responsive to my readers (click through for full version):