Week In Review: Friday Sep 10th

My real job is quickly approaching again as we move into fall. I’ve stockpiled plenty of material, but things will inevitably slow down a bit. I also have a few big projects on my plate related to Statistical Skier that I’ll be talking more about in the next week or two, so I have plenty to keep me busy. As for this past week,

With the Vuelta a España in full swing I slapped together some of the bump charts like I did for the Tour de France.
Since there’s been a fair bit of hand-wringing in the Norwegian press over the last few years about their men’s distance skiers, I thought I’d take a look at how they’ve actually fared over the last 18 years relative to everyone else.
Another diversion with some non-skiing data this week, looking at some triathlon data to see whether we can glean any strategy lessons from the data.
We’re almost done (I think) with the retiring skiers, this week recapping the career of biathlete Sandrine Bailly.