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Olympic Medal Count History
Here's an interesting presentation of the number of medals per country for all the past Olympics:
You can use the slider at the top to move back and forth through the Olympic years and see how each country's medal counts went up or down.
Each country is represented by a circle whose size is proportionate to the number of medals they won and you can mouse over a country to get the number of gold, silver and bronze medals.
You can also chose to either have the circles placed according to where the country appears on a map of the world or in rows ordered from highest to lowest medal count.
Give it a look, it's more interesting than I make it sound describing it in text. One of the better uses of animated graphics I've seen.
Posted at 12:49PM Aug 06, 2008 by Lindsay in Olympics | Comments[0]