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[olorin]

Agree, I think he will finish 6-8.
In other Australian news an injury scare to Dubler, which may not have his day in the sun, before his protégée...

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Heptathlon - Laura Ikauniece (ranked eight) is not competing....

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Finally a comparison between the performances in the 100 compared to the two technical events PV and JT. Like the previous table the relative performance...

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And the results they miss are typically old one.
There are three sites that I use:
The most comprehensive one is decathlon2000 - but it is...

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Results:
As previous analyses, I divided the relative 100 into equal groups only this time I used 5 (quintiles) as the more interesting results...

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Technical notes

As previous questions, I concentrated only at the performance of decathletes with PB of 8200. That is, I include only performances...

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So, you had a good start – so what?

The last question before the Olympics (T&F) start is concentrating in the importance of a good (or...

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As I said I have a limited data on the "old days".
Even, when I limited the data to before 1990 the negative relation between HJ and JT...

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One of the question I plan to ask is whether decathletes changed through the years.
The problem is that the number of observation before 1984 is...

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One of the thing that you learn while working with data is not to trust your impression, but wait for the data to tell its story.

I beli...

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Thanks David will be corrected (when the system will be convinced that I am not a spammer)....

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GH: my posts are keep being flag as potential spam and get delay, which is very annoying. I think that it is because I use word and then copy it to the...

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Warning: if you enjoy this post then go look in the mirror and know that you are looking at a stat-geek.

I had a hard time deciding how to...

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Bottom line -
The sprinter decathlete indeed exits and those decathletes that are good in the 100 are also good in the LJ, 110h and the 400. On...

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Question 2 - Correlation between decathlon events
The traditional way to divide decathletes into three categories. Those that are good in the running...

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Thanks for the compliment, but I am afraid that you overestimate my abilities (and/or underestimate the difficulty of the task in hand).
I follow...

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Good post.

Re 110h -
I agree that that there is a problem in the fact that I included only good performances (above 8200) so we don't...

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The results are not driven by the poor group being extra poor in the technical events but also by higher rewards for being good.
For example, when...

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If we calculate each performance in the decathlon relative to the average performance of all decathletes we have a good measure of the quality of the...

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We agree on most thing - I actually had a post about American underperformances in majors in the last decade, in the American trials heptathlon thread....