I’m not going to provide much analysis here, just the graphs. Feel free to pontificate in the comments. First up is the overall Tour rank after each stage:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tds_mw2011_rank4.png" "tds_mw2011_rank4")
The two day pursuit created more chaos in the overall placings than I expected. Somewhat more significant movement in the sprint in Stage 3 with the men, given the pure sprint specialists there.
The following two graphs split the men’s and women’s fields by nation (except for Andorra and Australia, for space reasons; sorry!). Instead of rank, they display the seconds from the median skier after each stage. They are somewhat large, so click through for the full versions:
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tds_men2011_nation4.png" "tds_men2011_nation4")
Tour de Ski Men After Stage 4
![](http://www.statisticalskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tds_wom2011_nation4.png" "tds_wom2011_nation4")
Tour de Ski Women After Stage 4
Some things I learned from these graphs:
- I didn’t realize how many skiers France had at the Tour, especially the men;
- the Italian men have relatively few skiers off the back;
- the Russian women aren’t having a great Tour so far;
- the Germans…what can you say?
More graphs focusing on individual skiers to come…
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