Cool visual and audio-ization of skiing in the Olympics

[wa-loaf]

This is kind of old, but I just discovered it. They plotted out the finishers in the skiing (and other events) from the last Olympics. The visual is good at showing the spacing, but the audio part really brings home how close they all really are to each other and what that fraction of time is like.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/26/sports/olympics/20100226-olysymphony.html

 

[Nick]

That is a cool visual. I found this to be an interesting statistic:

Speedskating
The individual silver medalist who came closest to gold was Annette Gerritsen of the Netherlands, in the women’s 1,000-meter speedskating race. She lost by .02 of a second, about the time it takes a hummingbird to flap its wings.

I guess a loss is a loss but that almost makes me just think, Tie. it's so small it's almost meaningless.

 

[Black Phantom]

That is a cool visual. I found this to be an interesting statistic:



I guess a loss is a loss but that almost makes me just think, Tie. it's so small it's almost meaningless.

So being the fastest should not count?:uzi:

 

[wa-loaf]

That is a cool visual. I found this to be an interesting statistic:



I guess a loss is a loss but that almost makes me just think, Tie. it's so small it's almost meaningless.

Um yeah, we'll just hand out participation medals instead like Kindergarten soccer ....

It's not that small because you have a lot of the same people winning often enough that there is definitely a skill level involved in getting that extra tenth or even hundredth of a second.

 

[Nick]

So being the fastest should not count?:uzi:

Nah, it definitely does, just amazing to think about how small that duration really is. So small it's *almost* meaningless, but there still needs to be a winner