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Covid-19 and the Tour de France

Update 17-10-2020: Added a figure for the Giro (Sicily only) too. This cycling season was disrupted abruptly by Covid-19 a.k.a. the coronavirus. The misery started February 27, 2020 when the UAE Tour was canceled after the fifth stage. Riders where quarantined in the desert, some longer than others. In the end the teams Cofidis, Groupama-FDJ and Gazprom-Rusvelo were able to leave the UAE on March 8. Fortunately, Ramon Sinkeldam and Arnaud Demare had a a Playstation that was smuggled into the hotel by Bas Tietema.

Tour de France 2019 Stages and Elevation

It has been quite a while since the last analysis and by now we are more than half way the Tour de France 2019. One of the most interesting Tour in years if you ask me. Julian Alaphilippe in yellow, no truly dominant team and many surprising stages. The past four stages took place in the Pyrenees. In this post we will take a look at the past mountain stages and their relative difficulties.

Visualizing the road to the Giro d'Italia

This is one of the times I truely deviated from my plan. There is a lot of work to do with the prediction algorithms, but instead of focusing I made a small app that can be used to visualize rider and team preparations for the Giro d’Italia. Talking about the Giro, did you already see our statistics on the Giro d’Italia race page? Before we continue there are 2 important things:

Cycling Prediction Review

Introduction Perhaps long overdue, but here we will review all predictions we published since the beginning of the year up to the Amstel Gold Race. We distinguish two types of races: one day races (ODR) / classics and stage races / multiday races (MDR). The predictions for these two race types are generated with different models, but for each race type the model specification was the same for all predictions up to now.

E3 BinckBank Classic Maps

The E3 Binckbank Classic 2019 is approaching fast. When doing some ‘field research’ on the official website I discovered that the organizers actually put a GPX file on their website. Basically this file contains the GPS data in a standardized format. It also includes the elevations in meters. I was intrigued, and decided to give it a go and have some fun with it.

Binck Bank Tour

Updated with results up to the 2021 edition

On this page you can find all sorts of historical Binck Bank Tour cycling statistics. This page is permanently under construction and will be expanded and improved with more cycling statistics and visualizations. If you are interested in cycling betting don’t forget to check out our predictions page. The 2021 Binck Bank Tour predictions will be published once the startlist is (almost) final.

Critérium du Dauphiné

Updated with results up to the 2021 edition

On this page you can find all sorts of historical Critérium du Dauphiné cycling statistics. This page is permanently under construction and will be expanded and improved with more cycling statistics and visualizations. If you are interested in cycling betting don’t forget to check out our predictions page. The 2021 Critérium du Dauphiné predictions will be published once the startlist is (almost) final.

Gree-Tour of Guangxi

Updated with results up to the 2021 edition

On this page you can find all sorts of historical Gree-Tour of Guangxi cycling statistics. This page is permanently under construction and will be expanded and improved with more cycling statistics and visualizations. If you are interested in cycling betting don’t forget to check out our predictions page. The 2021 Gree-Tour of Guangxi predictions will be published once the startlist is (almost) final.

Itzulia Basque Country

Updated with results up to the 2021 edition

On this page you can find all sorts of historical Itzulia Basque Country cycling statistics. This page is permanently under construction and will be expanded and improved with more cycling statistics and visualizations. If you are interested in cycling betting don’t forget to check out our predictions page. The 2021 Itzulia Basque Country predictions will be published once the startlist is (almost) final.

Paris – Nice

Updated with results up to the 2021 edition

On this page you can find all sorts of historical Paris – Nice cycling statistics. This page is permanently under construction and will be expanded and improved with more cycling statistics and visualizations. If you are interested in cycling betting don’t forget to check out our predictions page. The 2021 Paris – Nice predictions will be published once the startlist is (almost) final.