So, who is the dominant Olympian of the Vancouver games so far?
A round of applause, please for Swiss Simon Ammann, competition in both individual ski jump events, and, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the results was whipped cream, the Olympics second - most dominant performance on the conquered he of the large hill.
To find out how much more the leader is any sport as the average participant in this event, we compared the winning time or the number of points with the number of standard deviations from the mean. This is basically a statistical way of leveling the playing field. In fact, Mr Ammann came of gold in the second, with a margin of 2.02, trailing only Vincent Jay's gold medal in men's 10 km Sprint biathlon. However, the Frenchman had nature mother on his side and it wasn't for a freak snowstorm could have been probably won in the middle of the race. Mr Jay started early in a race with a staggered start and essentially stopped by the time that slowed down the field of snow.
The formula also shows how slim is the margin between glamour and misery in the Olympics. The closest field was assessing women 500 M speed skating races where Korea's Lee Sang hwa won by a microscopic 0.05 second. Meanwhile, Canadian Jon Montgomery is never to pay for other drink on home soil after his gold in the skeleton but a 0.41 on our dominance scale (the smallest) scored his razor-thin 0.07 seconds victory over Latvia's Martins Dukurs. The difference between your home circuit or 7,000 miles from home have been 0.07 seconds could.
Matthew Futterman
Write toMatthew Futterman on matthew.futterman@wsj.com
To find out what athletes won your event in dominant fashion, we noticed that won by the highest number of standard deviations from the mean value of the field.
The most dominantGold Medal winner * Vincent Jay, FRA
10 K Sprint biathlon late Ammann, SUI
Large hill ski JumpingEmil Hegle Svendsen, NOR, 20 K IND. BiathlonMartina Sáblíková, CZE
3000m SpeedskatingShani Davis, USA
1000 m speed skating
* Individual events Monday
Printed in the Wall Street Journal, page D10
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