Number of teams per Games

The visualization shows how the number of countries who participate in Olympics has been changing over the history of the Olympic games. The number is steadily growing, with the exception of 1980s when Western block and Eastern blocked countries boycotted games in USA and Soviet Union.

Olympic medals of former Czechoslovakia

The visualization shows all Olympic medals of Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. By default, every single medal is counted and you can see that this creates two large spikes (when Czechoslovakia won football tournament where a large number of individual medals is awarded). You can modify the visualization to show just individual event by replacing "count" in the series value with count of distinct events.

European Union as a country in Rio 2016

The Telegraph article EU puts itself at the top of Rio Olympics medal table shows an alternative version of the Olympic medals table with all medals awarded to the EU countries grouped together, originally published by MedalTracker.eu. This visualization reproduces the calculation, but you can also easily tweak it to see the alternative Brexit chart, or a chart for London 2012.

The summary counts only Gold medals and it groups the medals by event (so we only count one medal for team events where a large number of individuals were awarded a medal). This seems to be what MedalTracker does, but you can change the code to count raw kilograms of Gold if you wish!

Rio 2016 Medals Table

The two medalists with the largest number of gold medals from the Olympic games in Rio 2016 as of now are Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky - both swimmers from the United States team.

You can see the full list in this visualization, but you can also easily adapt it to see the top medalists of single other Olympic games. Just go to "options" and choose the games you are interested in!

Medals in Sitting Sports in Rio 2016

The visualization confirms the observation that Team GB dominates sitting sports in Rio 2016, even though if we look at the same data for the entire history of Olympic games, USA and Germany are doing slightly better.

For the purpose of the visualization, sitting sports include canoeing, kayaking, cycling and dressage. You can easily change the disciplines you want to see in the visualization options. Also, you can look at different Olympic games easily by choosing another games in "options".

Rio 2016 Olympic Medals

The visualization shows Olympic medals from Rio 2016 awarded so far. The map supports the trend from the Olympic medals timeline showing that growing number of teams are winning medals in recent years. Hover over any country to see the total number of gold, silver and bronze medalists.

Medals for Sitting-down Sports

It turns out that Team GB are top of the Olympic medal table... for sitting-down sports in Rio 2016. This table shows that UK does pretty well for sitting-down sports over the entire history of the Olympics too. UK has the same number of sitting medals as Germany (but fewer gold) and is only a couple of medals behind the United States.

For the purpose of the visualization, sitting sports include canoeing, kayaking, cycling and dressage. You can easily change the disciplines you want to see in the visualization options.

Table Tennis Medalists Timeline

This is a variation on the Olympic Medals Timeline visualization, showing the countries winning Olympic medal in table tennis. Since table tennis became an Olympic discipline in 1988, it was dominated by Chinese, Korean and Japanese players.

Czech and Slovak Medals History

Did Czech Republic and Slovakia get more medals after becoming separate countries in 1993? Looks like the answer is not obvious. This visualization shows the counts of Olympic medals that Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and Czech Republic got in a timeline inspired by this New York Times visualization.

One interesting fact - the visualization counts only one medal per event, so when Czechoslovakia won medals in Footbal in 1980, this visualization counts it just as one medal. You can easily change this - to count every single medal awarded click on "options" and change the option and value Event in "Get the data" to and value count. You'll see how the chart changes!

Top Countries by Long Distance Runs

The visualization shows the top countries by the number of medals in a specific sports. In this example, we are looking at Marathon, 10km and 5km runs for both men and women. This shows that the top countries dominating long distance runs are Ethiopia, Kenya followed by Finland. You can see this nicely visualized in the New York Times Visual History of Olympics article, which we recreated at The Gamma.

Where Aldar Gerevich Got All His Medals

Aldar Garevich is a Hungarian fencer and one of the very few athletes who got medals from 6 different Olympic games. This visualization shows the Olympic games in which he participated and the number of medals from individual games. You can see similar visualization for German kayaker Birgit Fischer, Romanian rower Elisabeta Lipa and German show jumping rider Hans Gunter Winkler if you choose another athlete in "options".

Medals by Event and Games

A visualization that combines two tricks from "All Medals of Michael Phelps" and from "All Time Olympic Medals Table" to create a single table that shows all the medals that Michael Phelps got, grouped by the event in which he competed with a nicely formatted list of medals.

You can easily change the athlete in the "options" to find out how your favorite athlete did in various disciplines and in which Olympic games he or she got the medals.

If Phelps and Latynina were Countries

This is a variation of the "If Michael Phelps Were a Country" visualization, but rather than comparing just Michael Phelps, it also adds Larisa Latynina, who is the second athlete when sorted by the total number of gold medals. You can see how this is done if you look at "source", The code is almost the same, but it includes one more variable named larisa that is calculated in the same way as phelps.

Top Medalists of London 2012

This visualization is a simple modification of "Individual Medalists of All Time", but rather than looking at medals over the entire history of Olympic games, it looks at medals of specific Olympic games.

In this visualization, we look at London 2012, but you can easily change the selected Olympic games in "options" and find top medalists of other games!

Czech and Slovak Medalists of All Time

This visualization is another variation on "Individual Medalists of All Time", but rather than looking at medalists of all teams, it only looks at medalists from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia and Bohemia which competed in Olympic games between 1900 and 1912 as an autonomous part of Austria-Hungary.

The list of teams included in the visualization can be easily modified, so if you are interested in another team (or multiple teams), you can just use "options" and modify the team list.

Rather than sorting the medalists by number of Gold medals (as the original visualization does), here we sort the medalists by the total number of medals. Again, this can also be changed in the "options".