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We made an effort to do this project not simply as a next set of different information about the Olympic games. It is an attempt to give you information in a comfortable form and in the maximally structured kind like a compact pocket Reference book.

In addition to statistics, the Reference book now contains 12049 photos of the athletes and 433 videos from olympic arenas.

What information can you get from the Reference book?

In the section Info you simply choose the need from the list of the Olympic games and get general information and some facts about Olympics.

In the section Winners you choose the need from the list of the Olympic games. Use click on plus/minus sign to expand or collapse list of the programme of competitions, then choose the event and find out all Olympic games winners. Search can be done on any level.

In the section Events you choose the need from the list of Sports. Use click on plus sign to find all events that are included in the Sport, then choose the event and find out all Olympic games winners. You can refine your search by choosing from the lists of the Olympic games and Nations. Search can be done on any level.

In the section Nations you choose the need from the list of Nations and find out all Olympic winners. You can refine your search by choosing from the list of the Olympic games.

In the section Athletes the information about all Olympic games winners of the all times is presented. You can enter terms of search or the Last name and get list of athletes. The feature of this section is grouping those athletes ( more precisely, to say - sportswomen), who changed their Last name or First name once or more times. Information about athlete consists of birthday, prize list and photo.

In the section Medals you can enter terms of search and find out the athletes who won the most medals. Athletes winning 3 and more medals (gold, silver, bronze) are included in the list.

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Olympic Headlines

30 Jul 2010  Media Accreditation Begins for 2012 (AP)
Sports Editors: The U.S. Olympic Committee will accept requests from media organizations starting Tuesday for accreditation to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The application form is available through the USOC's media-specific site, USOCPressbox,org. Click here to go to the request site: http://pressbox.teamusa.org/Pages/Credentials.aspx.
29 Jul 2010  1 in 40 of London's roads to form route (AP)
Olympic organizers will create designated routes across 2.5 percent of London's roads to help athletes, officials and dignitaries get around the congested city during the 2012 Games. A total of 105 miles of roads will be designated as part of the Olympic Route Network, organizers said Thursday. The roads will remain open to regular users but traffic signals will be adjusted and roadwork...
29 Jul 2010  Committees striking some unusual deals (AP)
With the economy spiraling downward and sponsors running away faster than Usain Bolt, the Olympics needed money. Big money. And fast. So, leaders of Olympic organizations started thinking outside the box, peddling their famous rings to new companies, selling multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals to pretty much anyone willing to pay the price.
28 Jul 2010  China: no more tolerance for age falsification (AP)
China will not tolerate age falsification and has enforced stringent checks on its 70-athlete delegation to the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore next month, a top sports official was quoted Thursday as saying. China has long been accused of athlete age falsification. Earlier this year, its women's gymnastics team from the 2000 Sydney Olympics was stripped of its bronze medal after an...
28 Jul 2010  US Biathlon board names Max Cobb president (AP)
Max Cobb, executive director of the U.S. Biathlon Association, has been named president and CEO of the US Biathlon Team. Team chairman Larry Pugh said on Wednesday that the board wanted to acknowledge the contributions Cobb has made to the sport over the last 20 years. Cobb joined the USBA in 1989 as the head of the domestic race series, and a year later was named assistant coach and manager of the...
28 Jul 2010  Procter & Gamble is latest global sponsor (AP)
Procter & Gamble, the U.S.-based consumer products giant, signed on as a global Olympic sponsor through 2020 on Wednesday in the second 10-year multi-million-dollar marketing deal this month for the International Olympic Committee. P&G becomes the 11th worldwide sponsor of the 2012 London Olympics, matching the number from the 2008 Beijing Games and giving the IOC another financial boost in a...
27 Jul 2010  London showcases venues with 2 years to go (AP)
Four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson crouched at the starting line, burst forward and ran down the track at the 80,000-seat stadium. Never mind that Johnson was running for fun against local school kids, the track was just a temporary 60-meter strip of carpet and most of the stands were empty. Exactly two years before the opening of the London Olympics, Johnson provided a glimpse Tuesday of...
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