Posts

Analysis of youth in the three Grand Tours in 2023

In recent years, enormous talents have emerged and appear to win competitions at a very young age. Among these cases are Remco Evenepoel, João Almeida, Tadej Pogacar among others.   This article aims to understand the number of young people who are included in the teams starting for the different grand tours in 2023, as well as their impact on the races.   In this way, the three Grand Tours were analyzed ( Giro d'Italia , Tour de France and La Vuelta ).   At the start of each Grand Tour, there were 176 cyclists. Of these 176, there were 46 young cyclists in the Giro d'Italia , 30 young cyclists in the Tour de France and 56 young cyclists in the La Vuelta .       Giro d'Italia Tour de France La Vuelta Total athletes 176 176 176 Young 46 30 56 Percentage of young  26.1% 17.1% 31.8%   However, this analysis does not stop here. It was consequently analyzed how many young cyclists finished the three Grand Tours and the number was high.     ...

Slope gradient of a climb - C#

Image
 Here is the C# code that gave rise to the article published with the same name in the analysis. Hope you like it!

Slope gradient of a climb - Python

Image
  Here is the Python code that gave rise to the article published with the same name in the analysis. Hope you like it!

Slope gradient of a climb

Image
  All cycling enthusiasts have come across, in one way or another, the expression slope gradient of a climb. The slope gradient represents the number of meters we climb in altitude over a given piece of terrain. This slope gradient is given as a percentage (%). If we have an ascent of 6 kilometres (d) with the peak at 1200 meters of altitude (h) and the beginning of the ascent to sea level (0 meters of altitude), the slope gradient is 20%.   Slope gradient = (1200 ÷ 6000) × 100    If we have an ascent of 4 kilometres (d) with the peak at 1000 metres of altitude and the beginning of the ascent at 600 metres of altitude (h = 1000 – 600 = 400), the slope gradient is 10%. Slope gradient = (400 ÷ 4000) × 100    I hope this expression is simpler for you and that you enjoyed the publication.  

Analysis of the Tour of Flandres

Image
The Tour of Flanders race is one of the most exciting and ingenious classics on the entire World Tour calendar. To be honest, it's one of my top-3 favourite races. I'll leave you with a method to analyse and predict a race's outcome based on computational analysis. The analysis will be based between 2010-2019, due the calendar is normal and not exist the pandemic of Covid-19. And the change of the race date outside the cobles classic season, making it impossible to correctly analyse the data. Winners: Winners 2021 Kasper Asgreen 2020 Mathieu Van Der Poel 2019 Alberto Betiol 2018 Niki Terpstra 2017 Philippe Gilbert 2016 Peter Sagan 2015 Alexander Kristoff 2014 Fabian Cancellara 2013 Fabian Cancellara 2012 Tom boonen 2011 Ni...