CALGARY — There is no paralysis in the analysis that Canadian Tire’s data-crunching wizards are doing for sport in this country. They spit it back out in user-friendly bits and pieces for coaches, high-performance directors, Own The Podium officials, and athletes being tasked with owning those podiums. It’s been a blast doing this.”They have worked with nine summer sport bodies and 10 winter sport organizations. Luge Canada has worked with the data analysts for more than two years, but Luge Canada high-performance director Walter Corey collected race data for 15 years in Excel files. The thing with analytics, they’re not going away.”Luge Canada will be focusing more on using analytics to aid talent identification in the next quadrennial.

Source: National Post December 06, 2017 21:45 UTC