Recently I’ve become rather obsessed with the Tour de France. Having never watched a bike race previously, I now find myself glued to Eurosport for upwards of five hours a day. There are a number of factors contributing to this shift on my part: an increased familiarity with the landscape and culture of the host nation, some covid-induced couch time, and a newfound respect for the insane feats of athleticism on display day after day. ...
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) delivered a definitive indictment to the world on Wednesday morning with the release of its reasoned decision regarding seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. In the 1,000-plus page document sent to the International Cycling Union and the World Anti-Doping agency, USADA found Armstrong guilty of using of performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career and of playing a central role in enforcing a systematic doping program on the U.S. Postal team....
A few notes about this data. The website that I scrape these results from isn’t, shall we say, the most consistent when it comes to the spelling of athlete names, or even their teams. That can make it difficult to slice the data along those dimensions, since it requires a fair bit of work adjusting [...] Related posts:
The final version of the 2012 Tour graph by team: Related posts:Tour de France – Stage 4 Tour de France: Stage 10 Tour de France: Stage 15 Related posts:
Just over two weeks ago, the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team set foot in France and immediately hopped on their road bikes. From there, they embarked on a weeklong cycling camp and watched two stages of the Tour de France along the way. In all, they rode more than 600 kilometers and tallied some 14,500 meters of climbing, including a team time trial up L’Alpe d’ Huez. The team’s youngest A-team member, 22-year-old Taylor Fletcher...
The final versions of the Tour de France graphs, first up the comparison to previous years: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 More Tour de France Data Visualizations Tour de France – Stage 2 Related posts:
Heading into the final weekend of the Tour, here’s how the teams compare: I’ll try to do some wrap up posts with some different looks at the data next week once the Tour is over. Related posts:Tour de France – Stage 2 Tour de France – Stage 4 Tour de France: Stage 9 Related posts:
Heading into the final weekend of the Tour, here’s how the teams compare: I’ll try to do some wrap up posts with some different looks at the data next week once the Tour is over. Related posts:Tour de France Graphs Tour de France – Stage 2 Tour de France: Stage 9 Related posts:
Another conveniently placed rest day for another Tour update. Since this is a Tuesday, we’re comparing this year’s Tour to previous years, through stage 15: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Bump Chart: Stage 16 Tour de France Graphs Related posts:
It’s Thursday, so that means this graph is broken down by team, just for the 2012 Tour: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Tour de France – Stage 2 Related posts:
Another Tour update, conveniently coinciding with a rest day: Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Bump Chart: Stage 16 Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Related posts:
This time we’ll look at the Tour results so far by team (click for larger version): Related posts:Tour de France Bumps Chart: Stage 14 Tour de France Charts: Stage 17 Tour de France Graphs Related posts:
Another bout of cycling fandom will keep us busy for a bit this July. Obviously, as of last night we’ve only had a handful of stages, but unlike with the Giro I have a bit more historical data to compare it do. I’m only going to do a handful of types of graphs for the [...] Related posts:
The final installment of the 2011 Tour de France graphs, and what a fun race that was this year! Plenty of excitement (for some not so fun reasons) early on and then plenty of exciting racing towards the end. Good stuff… As usual, you can click on them for slightly larger versions. Here’s the same [...] Related posts:Tour de France Charts Tour de France Graphs: Fancy Versions Tour de France Graphs
Rest day number two is upon us, so it’s time to update my graphs tracking the race thus far. First the standard ‘bump chart’ showing the GC picture through the first 15 stages: And for comparison, the same graphs for all the Tour back to 2005 (click for larger version): And another version broken down [...] Related posts:
Fellow blogger (and, full disclosure, good friend) Cosmo kind of stirred things up a bit with post regarding attrition rates in this year’s Tour. My cycling blogging has been mostly just for fun, as I’m not much of a cycling expert, so I mostly do it to entertain those folks who enjoy mixing sports, numbers [...] Related posts:
The Tour de Carnage France is well underway. I planned to post a few graphs on Monday, the Tour’s first rest day, but a skiing post took precedence. So these graphs run through yesterday’s Stage 10. As usual with these cycling posts I’m not going to say much. I’m just putting the graphs out there [...] Related posts:
The Tour de Carnage France is well underway. I planned to post a few graphs on Monday, the Tour’s first rest day, but a skiing post took precedence. So these graphs run through yesterday’s Stage 10. As usual with these cycling posts I’m not going to say much. I’m just putting the graphs out there [...] Related posts:
There are few sports that can challenge the intensity of cross-country skiing, but cycling is one of them. Anyone who has ever pedaled a road bike uphill–which includes almost all cross-country skiers–can appreciate the difficulty of the Tour de France, and as such, we decided to get some perspective on the race from Canadian Olympian Devon Kershaw. Kershaw himself is no stranger to the bicycle–Carlos Barredo-style? DK: Haha, Barredo was classic. Using the wheel for...
ALBERTVILLE, France (July 22) – World Champion skier Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) learned Wednesday that watching the Tour de France can be as dangerous as competing. The U.S. Ski Team athlete was involved in a car-bike collision while riding back from spectating at a Tour stage. Cycling back to Albertville shortly after watching the early portion of stage 17 of the Tour on the Col de Les Saisies, Lodwick rounded a corner and, in...