This Sunday sees the first of the Autumn marathons, and it’s a big one, with Haile Gebrselassie making a big effort on his own, 1-year old record in the Berlin time-trial…er, Marathon. Whenever an athlete of Geb’s caliber lines up, the talk of world records is inevitable, but this particular race is even more in […]
Archives for September 2008
The Paralympics: What to make of it?
Last week saw the curtain call of the Olympic cycle for four years, and the Paralympic Games came to an end amidst a spectacular closing ceremony. It brought to an end the biggest Paralympic Games to date – in terms of atheltes, support staff, media coverage, and financial incentives (both direct and indirect for athletes), […]
Coyle continued
Well, the discussion around the study published by Coyle on Lance Armstrong, and the subsequent revelation that he had made a calculation error has opened up some strong debate, which is always excellent. We’ve had numerous responses, and of course had the study been done on John Jones, as opposed to Lance Armstrong, no one […]
Coyle-Armstrong research installment 2
Apologies for the gap between posts – I wanted to spend more time on this particular piece to make sure that I captured what is a technical matter accurately. In , we looked at the 2005 research study published by Coyle on Lance Armstrong, in which he concluded that Armstrong’s efficiency had improved by 8% […]
Coyle and Armstrong: Research “errors” evaluation
As promised, we turn our attention to this story, which broke last week, coinciding with the news that Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement and will try to race the 2009 Tour de France. It’s quite an intricate story, and technical, so forgive the longish post, but we try to go back to the […]
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