August 05, 2008

medal map

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.

Medal-count

And if you scrub the slider fast enough you can quickly skip over the whole 1980 thing.