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Who won that medal?

February 14, 2006, 01:37 PM by Bing | 6 Comments
When you look at all the data about all the Olympics, as we did to add 350,000 facts about the Olympics to MSN Search, there are plenty of surprises.

Sports you never heard of, countries that don't exist, and an intricacy that defies easy understanding are all waiting for the Olympics data explorer. Architecture, town planning, painting, music, and sculpture all had Olympic medals once upon a time. The U.S. won these art competitions only once: art competitions Olympic medals United States. At one time, tug-of-war was an Olympic sport: tug-of-war 1904 gold medal. Some big competitors of the past have fallen completely off the map: Soviet Union Olympic medals, Unified Team Olympic medals.

Once you're past the unusual events and superannuated placenames there's the real wonder of it: the thousands of competitors in hundreds of events over 45 Olympiads. Here are some categories of answers we provide:

Medal totals, by country:
United States Winter Olympics medals
Canadian medals women's biathlon

Medalists by sport:
biathlon 2002 gold medal
gold medal winner ice hockey 2002

Medalists in specific events:
gold medal women's super-G 1998 Winter Olympics
who won women's figure skating 2002 Olympics

Olympic records:
Olympic record women's 1,000 meter speed skating

Individual records:
how many gold medals won by Apolo Anton Ohno
Bode Miller Olympic medals

Selected athlete biographies and details:
Michelle Kwan bio
Michelle Kwan home town
how tall is Michelle Kwan

--Mark Stumpf, Steve Heller, Instant Answer Team

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Comments

Ben

Posted On February 14, 2006, 06:28 PM
Interesting... it'd be nice if checking 'Australia Winter Olympics Medals' didn't bring up New Zealand's tally, though. ;-)

Keep up the good work though, these are looking to be more and more useful as time goes on.

Jordan Brock

Posted On February 14, 2006, 07:44 PM
Ben just wrote exactly what I was going to post.

Gareth White

Posted On February 18, 2006, 06:19 AM
Its a shame not all countries are able to compete in all of the Winter Olympic Sports due to having no cold weather vanues or facilities. I think the SUmmer Olympics are a much better competition for all of us countries where it doesnt snow much.

bob

Posted On February 21, 2006, 09:06 PM
f this site

olivia

Posted On February 22, 2006, 10:33 PM
i am trying to find WHO WON THE STINKIN MEDALS GOSH

stupid

Posted On February 28, 2006, 11:16 AM
u bitch

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