The Olympic 500‐m speed skating; the inner–outer lane difference |
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| Authors: | Richard Kamst Gerard H Kuper Gerard Sierksma |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Operations, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands;2. Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | In 1998, the International Skating Union and the International Olympic Committee decided to skate the 500‐m twice during World Single Distances Championships, Olympic Games, and World Cups. The decision was based on a study by the Norwegian statistician N. L. Hjort, who showed that in the period 1984–1994, there was a significant difference between 500‐m times skated with a start in the inner and outer lanes. Since the introduction of the clap skate in the season 1997–1998, however, there has been a general feeling that this difference is no longer significant. In this article we show that this is, in fact, the case. |
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| Keywords: | sports clap skate statistics |
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