Olympic medal winners: every one since 1896 as open data
The Guardian Datablog has posted Olympic medal winner data for download.
Admitting to some preference I was pleased to see that OpenDocument Format was one of the download choices. 
It may just be my ignorance of Olympic events but it seems odd for the gender of competitors to be listed along with the gender of the event?
A brief history of Olympic Sports (from Wikipedia). Military patrol was a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948. Is that likely to make a return in 2016? Or would terrorist spotting be more appropriate?