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?