Olympics

Run speeds in the men’s 100-meter race

Infographics / New York Times, Noah Lyles, Olympics, running

Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter, but he started as the slowest runner…
Best NBA players in the Olympics, by country since the 1992 Dream Team

Infographics / basketball, Olympics, Sportradar

In 1992, when the Dream Team dominated basketball in the Olympics, the best…
Olympic medal tracker variations

Statistical Visualization / medal, Olympics, tracker

As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages…
Illustrated guides to Olympic sports

Infographics / Catherine Tai, illustration, Olympics, Reuters

Reuters, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, has visual guides to all of the…
Olympic data journalism

Statistics / Alberto Cairo, data journalism, Olympics, Simon Rogers

Speaking of the Olympics, Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers talked about the warm-blooded…
How Olympic athletes combat the heat

Infographics / Bloomberg, heat, Kristian Blummenfelt, Olympics, sports

A part of outdoor sports is that you must deal with the weather,…
Snowboarding composite photos

Infographics / Ayumu Hirano, composite, New York Times, Olympics, snowboarding

If you watched the men’s halfpipe in the Olympics, you were probably impressed…
Weighted Olympic medal counts

Statistical Visualization / Josh Katz, medal, Olympics, ranking, Upshot

To decide who’s doing best at the Olympics you have to define what…
Figure skating animated jumps

Infographics / Nathan Chen, New York Times, Olympics, sports

Figure skater Nathan Chen set a world record with his performance in the…
How countries ranked by Olympic medal counts

Statistical Visualization / Josh Katz, New York Times, Olympics

Ranking countries by medal count change depending on how much value you place…
Olympic champions versus past Olympians

Infographics / history, New York Times, Olympics

With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s…
Age range of Olympians

Statistical Visualization / age, Olympics, Washington Post

Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha go with the strip plot to show the…
Science behind running fast vs. running far

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics, running

From The New York Times, the combination of video, motion graphics, and charts,…
Olympic medal tracker

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, medal, Olympics, tracker

The Bloomberg medal tracker is fun to look at. I think the graphics…
Calculating swim speeds

Statistical Visualization / estimation, New York Times, Olympics, swimming

The New York Times charted speed ranks during the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay.…
New Olympic sports explained

Infographics / Olympics, Washington Post

The 2020 Summer Olympics are here, so ’tis the season for experimental visual…
Olympic event visual explainers

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics, Tokyo

With the Olympics starting on Friday, The New York Times started their coverage…
Who’s winning the medal race, depending on how you weight the medals

Statistical Visualization / Josh Katz, Olympics, Upshot

Every year, we look at the medal counts of each country. Who’s winning?…
Mikaela Shiffrin pulling away for gold

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics, skiing

Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…
Olympian mechanics

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics

Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…

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