<aside> 🎯 Exploring the history of the Summer Olympic Games over 124 years, focusing on the evolution of the event and its champions.

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Datasets

Main

• 120 years of Olympic history: athletes and results
• 2020 Summer Olympics Dataset
• Summer Olympic Games History
• List of NOCs Country Codes

Additions

• World Bank - Annual GDP per country
• List of Stripped Olympic Medals

Notebooks

1. Scrapping & Cleaning Rows

https://drive.google.com/file/d/107Wa7zsOyg3wTfqxRjqv6V14pDNRmZ-v/view?usp=drive_web

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16n-j6Tqh_b9XIIO3cBmakoNsnySx5uvN/view?usp=drive_web

1. Pivoting Data

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vfSl8RT2VEGFggLC8h7n1C4iCmqQbwdN/view?usp=drive_web

1. Scrapping & Merging NOC Datasets

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hjxkTLGAKlb3ghKH58z0-oQxNvDNCyCo/view?usp=drive_web

1. Cleaning & Merging Olympics Datasets

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15BWOJcXjebYYC3X4U-ls9_kwTvaHST_j/view?usp=drive_web

Reports

History & Tensions

How have historical tension influenced the olympic games?

Nations & Athletes Growth (Normal & Tensed Years / Missing dates are due to World Wars)

<aside> 💡 Some Games did suffer from political and economical tensions:

• 1904, St Louis Games (USA): First Game outside Europe
• 1932, Los Angeles Games (USA): Held during worldwide Great Depression
• 1956, Melbourne Games (AUS): Soviet Invasion of Hungary led to top nations boycotts (i.e. SP, SW, NL)
• 1964, Tokyo (JAP): North Korea and Indonesia boycotted due to political tensions (JAP, ISR)
• 1968, Mexico City (MEX): Banned South Africa and Federal Republic of Germany (anti-apartheid movement)
• 1976, Montreal Games (CAN): Apartheid Era led to 29 African nation boycott
• 1980, Moscow Games (RUS): USA & Allies Boycotted the games (AFG invasion)
• 1984, Los Angeles Games (USA): Soviet Union & Eastern Bloc (14) boycotted the games
• 1988, Seoul Games (KOR): North Korea & allies boycotted </aside>

Global Growth

How does participation grow outside of tensed years?