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Olympics Facts and Figures
Getting Ready for the XXX Games of the Olympiad, London 2012
May 5, 2009 © Emily J. Foster
Information for sports fans looking for previous Olympics competitions and results, competitors
current world rankings, and World and Olympic records.
With the Games of the XXX Olympiad scheduled to start July 27 - Aug 12, 2012 in London, there is plenty
of time to study the competition, check out current performance and if desired, compare with historical
results.
Fans of Olympic sport can locate reference websites for information and statistics to enable following
the progress of favourite Olympians, or countries.
An official Olympic Games website makes available
information about all competitions and results. Other websites provide data about world rankings in their
specific sports; others still publish world and Olympic records.
London 2012 Official Website
First, introducing the Official website of the
London 2012 Olympics. It contains news
releases, interesting photos to download, advance lists of events, sports venues, etc. and one can
subscribe to their newsletter to keep abreast of any new developments.
The ardent fan will no doubt be interested in a table of standings of various nations. The position of the
nation, the number of gold, silver and bronze medals and the overall medal count. A link to this
information should be provided on the official site soon before the competition starts.
World Rankings
One can find out current world rankings of an athlete, swimmer, boxer, etc., but websites tend to report
only on their own specific sport. Rankings are based on the last performance recorded, so it is expected
that the rankings' printed dates vary between competitors. These dates should only be viewed as indicative.
For example, an athlete ranked at number ten may not have raced recently, therefore the athlete may or may
not currently perform at that reported level - true performance would only be known privately by the athlete.
Various sports organizations publishing world rankings are given below:
For other sports not appearing in the above list, one may do a Google search with keywords "World Rankings",
and include the sport of interest.
World and Olympic Records
The common cliché is that records are meant to be broken and this is the expectation at every official
sports event. The following Olympic site has interesting information related to previous Olympics and
contains copious World and Olympic records. Below is a direct link to the records page.
There is about three years to go before the next Olympics starts. Each year, there will be plenty of
competition to watch, such as the World Championships in Swimming and Athletics. Other sports will
also conduct their annual major events.
The copyright of the article Olympics Facts and Figures: Getting Ready for London 2012 is owned by
Emily J. Foster. Permission to republish in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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