Great piece of info porn from the New York Times, an interactive medal map that shows the distribution of Olympic medal winnings by country over time. What I love is that you scrub the slider from 1894 to the present is just how much more diverse the winnings are -- more countries competing, more countries winning.
And if you scrub the slider fast enough you can quickly skip over the whole 1980 thing.
I would like to note an oversight: the olympic slider should begin at 776 BC, and have a huge GREECE circle.
Posted by: David Jacobs | Aug 05, 2008 at 11:11 AM
I'll get right on that.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | Aug 08, 2008 at 03:28 PM